PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Tonya Timmons, Tenant from Linden Houses
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Tonya Timmons, a tenant from Linden Houses (now under RAD/PACT management), testifies about ongoing issues with apartment renovations and unresolved plumbing problems. She describes a frustrating situation where her apartment wall has been left open for weeks due to pipe repairs, while an uncooperative upstairs neighbor is preventing the completion of necessary work.
- The tenant's bathroom was renovated, but the pipes were not replaced, leading to water leakage affecting other apartments.
- Her apartment wall has been open since November 12th due to ongoing pipe repairs.
- Management threatened to call the fire department to break down her door for a leak, despite her already being aware of the issue.
- The upstairs neighbor is refusing access for pipe repairs, causing delays and frustration for Timmons and other tenants.
Tonya Timmons
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Yes.
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Good morning.
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I'm a tenant of, it used to be, Linden Houses.
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Now they turned it over to Rad Pat.
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I'm having issues with them.
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They did the renovations in our bathrooms, where now they came back in because they never changed the pipes when they renovated.
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My pipes was cracked up where the my tenant my neighbor down on the 4th floor was getting everybody's water going into her home.
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Now I'm having an issue because my wall had been open since November 12th.
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The neighbor upstairs is not granting them access to change their pipes because they're saying the pipes in all the apartments has to be changed.
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Everyone else agreed except for them on the 6th floor.
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I've been talking with the people, asking them, like, what's going on.
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They one day, they called me when I was down at NYCHA telling me, oh, we have to get into your apartment.
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There's a leak.
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I said, okay.
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Well, I'm done at NYCHA now.
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When I finish, I'm coming right home.
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Oh, no.
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We're gonna call the fire department and break down your door because this is important.
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I said, miss, I already know what's going on.
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My wall been open for 2 weeks already with this leak.
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So now my thing is, with these people, if you told me this, what are y'all doing with this tenant upstairs that is clearly refusing to let y'all in that apartment so they can fix the leaks?
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I'm still didn't hear anything from them.
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They keep telling me, oh, we're gonna go and get a court order.
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This has been going on for almost 2 weeks.
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My my wall still been open since November 12th.
