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At 100 years old, keeping warm is hard enough for Mabel Sands, who says most of the time she has little to no heat in her apartment.

“I'm freezing. I'm cold all the time,” says Sands.

Sands is not alone. Tenants at 1940 Lexington Avenue claim the New York City Housing Authority keeps their apartments frigid.

“Some days it feel like you outside,” says Veda Rankin, a homecare attendant.

“I have the stove on in order to keep it hot in here,” says Frking Young, a tenant.

Other residents say they pay through the nose to run their space heaters.

“Some people go without and go cold. They're cold and they got on a lot of sweaters and things because they know what could happen with Con Edison. My bill is $134 this month,” says Harriet Green, a tenant.

Residents have no idea what the temperature is because there are no thermostats in the apartments, just cold radiators.

NY1 confirmed this while visiting a number of the apartments. However, when NY1 called NYCHA about the tenants’ complaints, inspectors were sent to two of the apartments and claimed to find temperatures in the low 80s.

Tenants say that’s not surprising, since they keep temperatures up on their own with space heaters and open ovens.

Since city heating guidelines require a daytime inside temperature of at least 68 degrees when it's below 55 outside, NY1 called Housing Preservation and Development.

Surprisingly, a spokesman said NYCHA is self-regulated, leaving tenants with no recourse and a very long winter to face.

That leaves tenants with no recourse and a very long winter to face.