As one of the perks of the mayor's protocol office, Myrna Zisman got a coveted permit allowing her to park anywhere, the Daily News reported last February. Insulation material peeks out of a hole five feet high and four feet across. Giuliani appointed Polonetsky to be the city's consumer affairs commissioner, a job he left in 2000. As commissioner, Polonetsky might well have considered whether Zisman tenants were getting a fair deal. Most of the bill stems from a Brooklyn apartment building at 701 Avenue C, which also has 232 housing code violations.
Tenants there say they have no complaints about heat.
With ditched Christmas trees piled on the sidewalk atop bags of garbage and the remains of junked bicycles, it was clear that the holidays were over for the tenants of 1326 Grand Concourse. I can't sleep at night. My wife was throwing up and coughing blood because the stove dries up your membranes. Rodriguez has a computerized thermometer in his window that prints out a tape when the temperature in the room is below 50 degrees. The day of the press conference, Rodriguez's thermometer registered 64 degrees.