1/27 ACTION ALERT: BREAKING : #ADIManagement is charging the tenants of #60TurnerPlace a Major Capital Improvement (MCI) fee for new windows, in retaliation for tenants who called 311, HPD, or DHCR for the lack repairs #NoEvictionZone #MyNYCLandlord #TenantsFightback #Flatbush
This is unacceptable. Every tenant has a right to solicit help for city agencies when their landlord is unresponsive or neglectful. Equality for Flatbush has obtained an email
(see below) where #HerbDonner, the owner of ADI Management is trying to make the 60 Turner Place Tenant Association act as a “middle man” to prevent tenants from going directly to the city with their complaints, instead of addressing the concerns of his residents. If the tenants stop reporting ADI Management to city agencies Herb Donner said, he would consider it a “Good Faith” gesture.
Yet, despite this request for collaboration, Herb Donner has not fulfilled any of the demands of the
60 Turner Place Tenant Association:
He has not honored the 12/31/2016 deadline to fire #HerchinAblai, the racist body camera toting super who
has used Anti-Black racial slurs, spat at multiple tenants, locked two children in the laundry room and neglects the most basic upkeep of the building. Currently Herchin Ablai is barred from entering (12) 60 Turner Place apartments to make repairs including one household who obtained a legal restraining order against him.
Herbert Donner continues to harass tenants at 60 Turner Place by not making repairs
Herbert Donner has not ceased raising rents for basic improvements
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Call (718) 739-4262 ADI Management/Herb Donner, and demand he:
Fire the racist super Herchin Ablai, whose abuse of tenants is well documented (details below)
Not issue MCI (major capital improvement) fees for basic, necessary improvements
Stop all forms of tenant harassment at 60 Turner Place
ADI Phone Number: Please also sign the petition below.
https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/stop-racism-tenant-harassment-fire-herchin-alba-now
Background :
Herb Donner disregarded a 12/31/2016 deadline demanded by the 60 Turner Place Tenant Association to FIRE Herchin Ablai and hire a respectful replacement.
The tenants of 60 Turner Place have documented abuses such as:
Calling Black tenants racial slurs.
Spitting at tenants
Locking children in the laundry room
Neglecting basic upkeep
He is banned from over 12 apartments in the building from making repairs, and the list continues to grow. (see petition for more details on his abuses)
The building is in disrepair. Instead of fixing old windows as requested in a letter sent to management in October 2016, management has blatantly ignored this request, and instead
made a decision to replace windows at a cost to the tenants.
Attached is Herb Donner’s email to a tenant about the Tenant Association:
From: Herb Donner <[email protected]>
Date: January 12, 2017 at 3:32:36 PM EST
To: H Duke
Subject: Re: Follow up on Tenant meeting
I am taking this opportunity to respond to both of your e-mails.
First, Replacement of building windows does constitute a Major Capital
Improvement. Accordingly, the appropriate filing will be made with the
Division of Housing and Community Renewal.
In regard to scheduling a meeting - Your last e-mail of 2016, instead of
looking for common ground for us to work together made a specific timed
demand. I had hoped we were past that.
At this time we are looking to establish contact with individual tenants who
have the best interest of the entire building as their goal. Your 60 Turner
Place Tenants' Association could fill that function. For that to be the
case we would need an indication of Good Faith on your part. For example,
there are a number of tenants who have elected to communicate with us
through third parties, specifically 311, HPD or DHCR. If the 60 Turner
Place Tenants' Association would step in to that position and we were
afforded the opportunity to address complaints directly, we would consider
that a good faith gesture.
Please let me know what your thoughts are in this regard.
Attached is the MCI letter
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