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Rego Park woman battles with courts to stay in her home
BY MARK HALLUM
mhallum@schnepsmedia.com
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Arlene Moskowitz’s landlord-tenant
dispute has been years shaping up as the
housing section division of the Queens
County Civil Court is woefully understaff
ed, her son Howie claims.
But for upwards of about fi ve years,
Moskowitz’s status in her rent controlled
apartment in Rego Park where she has
lived since the early eighties has fallen
into disrepair. Her son claims her landlord
is attempting to force her out and destabilize
the unit.
According to the city Department of
Finance, the owner of the co-op unit is
Mew Hills LLC, a corporation operated
by David and Amy Weber, which acquired
the unit in 2002.
Moskowitz has been attempting to
square things with the landlord in housing
court, but with understaff ed windows
for deliberations to be made orders to
Housing Preservation and Development
have a tendency to fall through the cracks.
HPD was a no-show aft er a recent
request for the city agency by the courts to
reinspect her 99th Street and 64th Avenue
apartment, to which Moskowitz was told
HPD did not receive any form of notifi cation
from the courts.
“For my mom to pick up at 83, it’s not
right and it’s not legal,” Moskowitz said.
“My mom lives in daily fear the landlord
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has compromised her health.”
In 2017, a recently repaired piece of
drywall above the toilet in the apartment
fell, fortunately not causing any injury,
according to Moskowitz.
Moskowitz also says the landlord has
not been providing receipts that his mother’s
rent has been paid and claims she is
behind on payments.
Recently, the mother-son team have fi led
a Freedom of Information request with
the city Department of Finance seeking
Photos courtesy of Howie Moskowitz
tax records on the property. A 2013 letter
from the DOF looking to verify that the
residence was the Weber’s primary address
in order to continue providing a tax abatement
went unanswered by the owners.
Since August 2018, Arlene’s apartment
has racked up 24 violations on the HPD
website mostly pertaining to the state of
the walls pests among other defective features.
Attempts to reach the landlord were
unsuccessful.
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