Some Queens tenants are now cooking with gas after calling NY1 For You. NY1’s Susan Jhun filed the following report.
After blowing the whistle on management, tenants in a Flushing building are relieved to once again have cooking gas.
“Thank God, thank God. Thank you,” said tenant Paula Riley.
At the beginning of the week, NY1 reported that tenants at The Auburn in Flushing contacted NY1 for help after living without gas for over a month.
“A definite hardship. You can't even do laundry because there's no gas for the dryers,” said Riley.
Tenants told NY1 they received no information about the outage beyond a notice posted in early February stating ConEd shut off the building's gas due to a leak.
“We don't know how long it's going to take to be put back on. There's no communication,” said tenant Brenda Ellis.
After residents contacted us, we called the property management company, Kings and Queens Maintenance and a spokesperson told us representatives had been working with the City and ConEd to get cooking gas restored. He claimed that all needed repairs were completed and approved by the Department of Buildings and they'd been waiting for ConEd to schedule turn on service since March 9.
However, when we contacted Con Ed, a spokeswoman told us the building was not cleared and ready for restoration of gas services until March 13.
On March 17, the day after our call, all gas was restored to the building.
“I don't know what you did, how you did it but thank you,” said Riley.