Rent-stabilized tenants in one Brooklyn neighborhood are accusing their landlord of trying to kick them out to get higher rents.
Residents rallied in Sunset Park Friday to demand better living conditions.
They filed a complaint with the city Commission on Human Rights, charging landlord Soo Fung Dong with harassment, discrimination and unsafe living conditions.
They say they've been living with no heat, hot water and other utilities.
"There will be no harassment on tenants that have been living here their entire lives," said City Councilman Carlos Menchaca of Brooklyn. "There are new landlords that have bought buildings that are now trying to usher our families out into the streets so that they can remove affordable housing and stabilized housing and bring in market values. That will stop."
"There's no heat or hot water," said one tenant. "There's mold, there's lead. In my apartment, there's lead in the radiator."
Hundreds of complaints have been sent to the city since Dong bought the building on 61st Street in 2007.
A settlement last month ordered Dong to make needed repairs on the building.