Help the tenants of 441 Brooklyn Ave in Crown Heights, Brooklyn get a ramp built

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Please sign and support the 441 Brooklyn Avenue Tenants Association  - Help them get a ramp built

Video by Patrick Chang

On February 18th, 2016, the tenants of 441 Brooklyn Ave,  a 68-unit rent stabilized building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn started a petition to get their landlords,  Mike and Steve Spera, to build a desperately needed ramp for the building.  The tenants gave their landlords a 60-day deadline (April 18th) to complete the ramp .  Over 50 tenants signed the paper version of the petition which was mailed to their landlords. If the ramp is not installed by April 18th,  the tenants intend to file a lawsuit with the New York City Commission on Human Rights.

Now they are asking for community members and the general public to join them in their struggle to have a ramp built.

Please sign and support the 441 Brooklyn Avenue Tenants  Association

To: Management, 441 Brooklyn Ave LLC

We, the undersigned family, friends, and supporters of 441 Brooklyn Avenue Tenants Association, hereby demand that you install a ramp providing wheelchair access to the building lobby, as required by the New York City Commission's Human Rights Law.1.  We request that you install the ramp by April 18th.

Sincerely,

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