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Your landlord's cutting corners: 5,400 heat complaints in NYC.

Your landlord ain't giving you heat? You ain't alone.

So look—we all know living in this city ain't cheap, right? And the least you can expect is some damn heat when it's cold. But deadass, the 311 numbers are showing a wild amount of complaints about heat and hot water.

Here's the thing:

* **Heat/Hot Water (Entire Building):** 3,807 requests. That's a huge number, meaning whole buildings out there are freezing.

* **Heat/Hot Water (Apartment Only):** Another 1,604 requests. So even if the building has some heat, individual units are still getting shafted.

That's over 5,400 calls for heat or hot water issues, according to the 311 service request data. Nah, that's not right. Think about all those New Yorkers bundled up indoors, trying to get through the day because some landlord ain't doing their job.

And then you got the noise complaints, right? Banging, loud music—the usual city symphony. But the heat complaints? That's a basic living standard. You gotta wonder if these landlords are cutting corners. We need to watch how the city addresses these basic quality of life issues, especially as the temperatures drop.

Rachel Kwon-Gutierrez, MiTL Sports Desk, Queens.

Yo, the crew on the morning show dives deep into this kinda stuff, you know the drill—mornings.live.

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