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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by James Elseviera, Tenant Association President of Cypress Hills Houses
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James Elseviera, the new Tenant Association President of Cypress Hills Houses, testifies about various issues in his development, including public safety concerns, poor lighting, and lack of playgrounds. He emphasizes the need for improvements and requests a walk-through of the development to showcase the problems.
- Highlights safety issues with spray-painted and taped-up CCT cameras, rendering them ineffective since December.
- Points out the lack of NYCHA-owned playgrounds within the development for children.
- Mentions issues with apartment maintenance and property management.
- Expresses his commitment to fighting for what's right as the new TA president.
James Elseviera
2:37:03
Hello.
2:37:04
I wanna start off by saying thank you councilman Chris Banks for noticing my development, Cypress Hills development, which needs a walk through.
2:37:15
Public safety is one of the issues that we're having right now.
2:37:18
So they was talking about the CCT cameras, right?
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But in my development all the cameras are spray painted and taped up.
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So that one right there is a public safety issue because none of the cameras is working.
2:37:32
So if a problem was to happen in the building or you know where the cameras is located at, you won't be able to see anything because they all spray painted and they're taped and it's been this been going on since I believe December 10.
2:37:46
It's now March.
2:37:49
What else we have?
2:37:51
Lighting is bad in the development.
2:37:54
We have no we have no playgrounds for the kids to come outside and play.
2:38:00
We have yeah.
2:38:01
We have a city park, but it's a city's park.
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It's not a NYCHA.
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It's not a NYCHA's it's on NYCHA's ground, but it's it's owned by the city.
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It's not like, if we come outside of our buildings, we don't have playgrounds for the kids to come.
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There's not one playground in there for the kids to play.
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So there's really nothing available for the kids to grow up to.
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Like, there's nothing there.
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And with me being a new TA president, I'm just fighting for what's right.
2:38:27
And we also have a lot of complaints with with tenants and an apartment, the maintenance work is property manager if you ask me.
2:38:38
Yeah.
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And that's just I would just leave that there.
2:38:42
But there's a lot of work that needs to be done in my development and I will appreciate it if they do come and walk to see for they self what we go through on a daily basis.
Chris Banks
2:38:52
Thank you.
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Before you conclude, the You're the TA president for Cypress Houses.
2:39:00
Am I correct?
James Elseviera
2:39:00
Correct.
2:39:00
I'm the new TA president for Cypress Hills Projects.
2:39:03
Yes.