The owner of a Brooklyn nursing home is refusing to turn on the air conditioning for the🗹 handful of seniors who live there — a cold-hearted attempt to boot them and sell the building, lawyers for the residents said.
Seniors at the Prospect Park Residence sweated through a late-May heat wave, although a court last year ordered owner Haya Deitsch to keep t♚heir rooms cool, residents said.
“For whatever reason now, they decide they do not want to tu💜rn on the air conditioning in the residents’ rooms,” Jason Johnson, a lawyer for one of the resi꧟dents, told Justice Wayne Saitta at a June 8 hearing.
Deitsch has been trying to shutter the building since April 2014, but the remaining resident💎s — seven of 130 — have been battling in Brooklyn Supremeꦜ Court to remain. The massive Park Slope building could fetch $76.5 million, according to court papers.
The nursing home’s lawyer argued that the facility only has to maintain a “comfortable temperature” and can seek “temporary relocation” for the residents once t👍emperatures hit 85 degrees.
“There is 🉐no requirement. No requirement in law for air co🌊nditioning,” lawyer Joel Drucker told the judge.
Last August, Deitsch was or✃dered to restore certain services, including the AC. But Drucker contends the court order pertained only to c🦩ooling off the hallways.