And regionwide, requests for repairs have swelled to 82,000, compared with 36,000 at this time last month.
In New York City, Verizon deals with an average of 2,600 requests for telephone installations and 4,500 requests for repairs each day, said Steven Marcus, a spokesman for the company.
The role includes booking requests for repairs and dealing with tenants' requests for property exchanges as well as some front desk reception work.
Another soldier said in an interview that he was repeatedly shocked in the shower in December 2007 and submitted requests for repairs.
By Sunday, Verizon, the company created by Bell Atlantic's acquisition of GTE, had a backlog of about 92,000 outstanding requests for repairs.
Nilsa Chacon, 24, who lived at 55 West 180th Street from 2005 to 2007, said Mr. Selechnik responded quickly to her requests for repairs on her $825-a-month one-bedroom apartment.
Requests for repairs – which go from the tenant to a tenancy management service and then to a contractor – must also be approved by the department if they will cost more than $100, a NT inquiry was told this month.
*** The same is true of Jessica McLean, a 46-year-old, self-employed, single mother of two from Easton in Bristol, who is fighting an eviction notice she claims is motivated by her requests for repairs and an admission on the part of the landlord's private agency that they seek to increase the rent by 20-25% for a new tenant.
Mr. de Blasio said he was taken aback by the poor condition of Ms. Wilson's apartment, where a set of mold-covered cabinets lies on the floor of the kitchen, two years after a flood, despite her repeated requests for repairs.
Mr. de Blasio said he was taken aback by the poor condition of Ms. Wilson's apartment, where a set of mold-covered cabinets lays on the floor of the kitchen, two years after a flood, despite her repeated requests for repairs.
