None had received an apology, compensation or an offer to repair the door.
A. Aaron Shmulewitz, a Manhattan co-op lawyer, said that the co-op's failure to repair the door over the past six months seems to be unreasonable.
At the same time, however, Mr. Szabo said, the letter writer's co-op should adjust or repair the doors so that they operate properly.
On the other hand, she said, if the landlord offered the apartment to the tenant with the closets as part of the deal -- much like the way an apartment usually comes with a refrigerator -- then it would be the landlord's responsibility to repair the doors.
For example, Ms. Zekaria said, if the landlord offered to remove the closet before the new tenant moved in, and the new tenant said, "No, I'll keep the closet," then it would be the tenant's responsibility to repair the doors.
His first road picture was geotagged "Chicago Downtown" but could have been anywhere: the battered steel door between the faux fluted pilasters of a down-at-heel industrial building, its cinder-block facade unevenly repaired; above the door, someone had stenciled a simple, charming scene of white snowcapped mountains and a floating white moon.
Tim Dowling: will a £15 hinge end my ongoing quest to repair the back door?
Tim Dowling's Weekend column Tim Dowling: will a £15 hinge end my ongoing quest to repair the back door?
At the Douglass-Truth branch in the city's Central District, Marcus Price arrived Wednesday only to find out that he could not get past the workers repairing the front doors.
The solution seemed simple enough: Repair the door, solve the problem.
