Brooklyn Tenants Say Landlord Used Dead Cats to Try to Evict Them
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Tenants of a Brooklyn building say their landlord came up with a new idea for how to kick them out: Let the smell of the cats out of the bag. Dead cats, that is.
The stench from the carcasses did catch the tenants' attention — but they stayed and sued.
One tenant, Daisy Terry, told the New York Daily News it was so bad she had to hold her nose coming down the stairs.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The building in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood was purchased last year by a company listed in court papers as Heskel 1. A call to Heskel Properties in Manhattan was not immediately returned.
Terry says the landlord used the dead cats to try to push out rent-stabilized tenants. In addition, stairs leading to the basement had been removed.