![]() ![]() Today many residents at Seaview Towers also receive federal Section 8 vouchers to help them pay rent.Ī 2021 report from state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli found that Seaview Towers had the highest rate of tenant turnover of any Mitchell-Lama rental complex in Queens. The buildings were built in the late 1970s under the state’s Mitchell-Lama program, aimed at providing more affordable housing for middle-income New Yorkers. A-1 Realty Management, a company operated by the Alizios, is also named in the lawsuit as a defendant and “managing agent” of the development. The lawsuit names Paul and Peter Alizio as “The Head Officer” and “The Officer” of the two buildings. The development’s current owner, Seaview Towers 2006, LP, purchased the buildings in 2006. These “long-standing and reoccurring conditions” and the landlord’s “failure to address them,” the complaint alleges, “are part of a clear pattern of harassment and neglect … with the intent of making the premises inhabitable” to tenants there, who are “predominantly low-income Black and Brown.” In the lawsuits, one for each building, residents at Seaview Towers allege “widespread neglect and failure to properly maintain and repair” the building’s apartments and common areas, resulting in issues including “constant and reoccurring malfunctioning elevators,” pest and rodent infestations, and a lack of adequate heat and clean water. At a pair of Far Rockaway rental towers, 29 residents have brought two lawsuits demanding repairs from their landlord, who they charge has left the building in a state of disrepair despite receiving more than $29 million in state loans in 2020 to rehabilitate and refinance the 462-unit Mitchell-Lama development. ![]()
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