Residents In Uninsuired, Fire-Damaged Bronx Apartment House In Foreclosure Lack Cooking Gas For Thanksgiving Dinner; Heat, Hot Water Recently Restored

In The Bronx, New York, NY1 reports:

• Residents of a Bronx building that was damaged by a fire this past summer may have to cook their Thanksgiving dinner on hot plates as they continue to wait for repairs to be made. Tenants of 2285 Sedgwick Avenue say they have been without cooking gas for months. They say the trouble started after a fire broke out in the University Heights building back in July. Residents only recently had their heat and hot water restored. "It's like living in a cave. And this New York, it's supposed to be the best city in the world. Well, cold showers will change your opinion very quickly," said one resident.

• "Since there's no gas we got to buy food from outside. It's coming to a stage that we not able to be able to pay for food," said another resident. The building also went into foreclosure and there's no insurance on it. Tenants say they were told it could be four to six months before the gas in their stoves comes back. NY1 was unable to locate the owner for comment.

For more, see Four Months Later, Bronx Tenants Still Unable To Cook.