One of New York City’s most notorious landlords may be heading to jail after a Manhattan judge ordered his arrest Friday for allegedly failing to make hundreds of court-ordered repairs at a pair of Washington Heights properties., was ordered to be held at Rikers Island for up to two months after he repeatedly blew off mandatory repairs at two buildings on West 170th Street for more than a year, according to Judge Jack Stoller.
Stoller issued the arrest warrant after tenants and the city‘s Department of Housing Preservation and Development sued Ohebshalom to remove lead paint from apartment walls, fix crumbled ceilings and get rid of mice and roaches throughout the two buildings at 705 and 709 West 170th St. Loyda Irizarry, who has lived on the third floor of 709 West 170th St. since the late 1990s, says the ceiling collapsed onto a child's bed.Irizarry described chronic heat outages, including after she returned from the hospital following cancer treatment two years ago, and said rats invaded the building through holes in the first-floor apartments.
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