Residents of a Bedford-Stuyvesant building say a pair of tenants have turned their lives into a nightmare — with loud arguments, late-night parties and months of unpaid rent.
Neighbors say the trouble began earlier this year, and tensions have only escalated. Security footage shows screaming matches at 4 a.m., police responding to disturbances and shared spaces, like bathrooms, being barricaded.
Andrei Siadykh, the building’s superintendent who lives directly below the tenants, says he’s been pushed to the brink.
“I cannot feel safe here because of these neighbors,” Siadykh told News 12. “I cannot rent this at all, I cannot do anything. I have insomnia, I have panic attacks. I worry about my belongings.”
Siadykh says the tenants haven’t paid rent since March, after moving under false pretenses under a different name as part of an Airbnb long-term rental, and their behavior has driven out paying tenants.
One former resident, Monday Blue, said she was hospitalized after repeated confrontations.
“They’ve just been terrorizing me, threatening me,” she said. “I’ve had panic attacks and been in the hospital.”
Siadykh says he’s already lost more than $6,000 in rent and has had to block off parts of his own apartment after items went missing.
He says the final straw came when the tenants allegedly demanded $8,000 to leave and to stay until September.
“I don’t have $8,000 right away to pay these people,” he said.
An eviction notice has since been served, but when News 12 knocked on the third-floor apartment, they did not open their door.
Siadykh says he’s hopeful the ordeal will soon be over
“I just want peace in my home again,” he said.