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Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
NYC tenants battle former ‘worst landlord' for repairs years after suing
JAMAICA, Queens (PIX11) — Queens tenants are still fighting for working elevators nearly two years after suing their landlord, who once topped the city's worst landlords list, according to their lawyer. Enrique Standard, a tenant who walks with a cane, has missed doctor appointments and events with his children because he can't use the elevator, he said. An 82-year-old woman was recently stuck in an elevator and rescued by the FDNY, according to Queens Legal Services NYC. More Local News It's the latest in a years-long battle between the Queens tenants and their landlord, Ved Parkash, who topped the Public Advocate's worst landlords list in 2015. Parkash has faced dozens of other tenant lawsuits, according to The Real Deal. 'We can no longer keep sitting by and watch all these things happen in our homes. We deserve better. We pay our rent,' said Yolanda, a tenant displaced after a massive fire in a Bronx building owned by Parkash. In a written statement, a spokesperson for Parkash Management told PIX11 News the company has already made many repairs at the Queens property. 'All issues in the complaint filed last year have been remedied by the company, with the exception of a single outstanding matter. Since this continues to be active litigation, we cannot comment on the details involving this unresolved issue,' the spokesperson said in a written statement. More: Latest News from Around the Tri-State Tenants are demanding that both elevators be replaced — and they're prepared to keep fighting if not, according to James Tenenbaum, a staff attorney with the Tenants Rights Coalition. The Department of Buildings has issued over 20 elevator-related violations at the building since 2020, most of which were resolved, buildings records show. 'If we have an agreement on May 1 to replace both of the elevators, we and our clients are comfortable settling this case,' Tenenbaum said. 'If we do not have an agreement to replace both of the elevators… then we're going to be moving forward with our contempt hearings and we're going to be asking for the maximum penalties that we can get against Parkash.' The elevators have become the focal point, but other issues persist, Tenenbaum said. The Queens tenants initiated a rent strike in January, and are calling for a rent reduction until conditions improve. The building currently has 111 open violations with the Housing Preservation & Development department for issues ranging from mold to roaches to missing carbon monoxide detectors. 'These issues, Parkash does go and address them. We are not contesting that Parkash has tried to make repairs and has made repairs in some common areas and some apartments,' Tenenbaum said. 'They're not quality and they're not sustainable repairs and so even though tenants get some repairs, those issues often times return.' For the tenants, it's about safety, especially after the fire at Parkash's Bronx building injured seven people and displaced over 150, according to authorities. 'We're worried about the same thing happening here,' Tenenbaum said. Emily Rahhal is a digital reporter who has covered New York City since 2023 after reporting in Los Angeles for years. She joined PIX11 in 2024. See more of her work here and follow her on Twitter here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Buzz Feed
28-03-2025
- Science
- Buzz Feed
Astronaut Sex, Pooping In Plastic Bags, And Every Other Secret You Didn't Know About Being In Space, According To An Ex-NASA Employee
For over a decade, Laura Faye Tenenbaum was a senior science editor at NASA. Today, she's an award-winning innovator in science communication and has amassed a large following on TikTok making videos on a wide range of topics, from her personal life to her scientific expertise. Speaking on her time at the space agency, Tenenbaum says she was "censored at NASA" and "forced out because [she] wouldn't stop talking about climate change during Trump's first term," but that certainly hasn't stopped her from sharing her knowledge online today. In fact, earlier this month she posted a video about just how "disgusting the space station is," which was watched by over 2.4 million people. The space station she's referring to here, of course, is the International Space Station (ISS) — a laboratory orbiting Earth that's shared by 15 countries. Since November of 2000, it's been continuously occupied. The fifteen countries include: the US, Canada, Japan, Russia, and the Member States of the European Space Agency (the UK, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Switzerland, Norway, and Sweden.) In the now-viral video, Tenenbaum revealed what it's actually like to live and work aboard the ISS, and it' quite as fun as most of us thought it'd be. So, let's talk about what secrets she revealed: If you're anything like me — and, it seems, the commenters on her TikTok — you probably thought it'd be super clean and sterile up there, being that it's a lab and all, right? Not quite! According to Tenenbaum, it's actually "fucking disgusting." She elaborated, "If you touch the wall of the space station, it's, like, ew. It's sticky." Not only is it sticky — Tenenbaum says it's really smelly, too. So much so that it apparently "would actually make people sick." Further, she revealed that the toilets on the ISS break "all the fucking time," which means astronauts are sometimes forced to use a plastic bag as their makeshift toilet. I can't imagine that helps with the odor, TBH! Speaking of excrement, it's really expensive to bring water up to space, so water has to be recycled and reused repeatedly. For the astronauts, that means "all the pee, all the sweat, all the spit kind of goes through these water recycling machines, and then you can drink it again." While the water is safe to drink, I'd imagine it's a bit of a mental exercise to get past the fact that you literally pooped in this water, like, a couple of days ago while having a refreshing afternoon glass of H₂O. Due to the lack of water, astronauts aboard the ISS also can't shower or wash their clothes. To keep themselves as clean as possible, they wipe "their pits and their junk" with baby wipes, and then incinerate them. They also reuse their clothes "until they're too disgusting" to wear again, and incinerate those as well. That might not sound too bad, but you've gotta keep in mind that expeditions are usually around six months long. That's six months of no showers and very minimal clean top of everything else we've already talked about here. There are also rats in space! No, not like stowaways on the subway, but for research. Like us, the rats urinate and have water vapor in their exhales, which, in a zero-gravity environment like space, can get pretty messy for both the people and the rats. Tenenbaum claims they have to collect the rats's water vapor and urine to repurpose just like they do with the humans, but despite having asked NASA "again and again and again" they "will not disclose" how they manage to do that. Tenenbaum also shared that there's basically no privacy in space, because there's constant audio monitoring from ground control in Houston. So, if two astronauts have sex or get into a on the ground knows about it. And, if you're lucky, they'll hopefully keep it to themself.
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Magdalena Bay Take On David Bowie's ‘Ashes to Ashes' for ‘Like a Version'
Los Angeles-based alt-pop duo Magdalena Bay have paid tribute to David Bowie for their recent appearance on Like a Version, the long-running segment from Australian radio station triple j. Premiering on the morning of Friday, March 28 (Australian time), the pair – which comprises Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin – recorded their performance during a recent trip to Australia in early March. The two-song set saw them performing original track 'Image' before focusing on Bowie's 1980 single 'Ashes to Ashes.' More from Billboard Huey P. Williams, Beloved Lead Singer of the Jackson Southernaires, Dies at 80 Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Halftime Show Received 125 FCC Complaints New Billy Joel Documentary 'And So It Goes' to Air on HBO First released as the lead single to Bowie's 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), the single did not impact the Hot 100, though it gave Bowie his first U.K. chart-topper since 1969's 'Space Oddity.' The album, meanwhile, peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 and was Bowie's first in six years to top the chart in his home country. 'It's a great, kind of weird experimental pop song that I think we took a lot of inspiration from,' said Lewin in a post-performance interview. 'We're always just kind of listening to it, it's never really left our rotation of songs that we love,' added Tenenbaum. 'I drew a lot of influence from his ideas of being an artist and what it means to create art,' continued Tenenbaum. 'I found [it] very inspiring as we were going into the creation of our latest album, Imaginal Disk. 'It's tough, because when you love a song so much and you know what you love about it and then you also want make it your own a little bit, it's like, 'How much should you really mess with it?'' Magdalena Bay's cover was indeed preceded by a cut from latest album, Imaginal Disk, with second single 'Image' also performed in the Like a Version studio. The track was voted in at No. 147 in triple j's annual Hottest 100 countdown, and in December 2024 was chosen by Billboard staff as one of the 20 Pop Songs From 2024 That Deserved to Be Smashes. Having first launched in 2004, the Like a Version series has gone from being a near-impromptu acoustic affair to featuring larger studio productions. Numerous artists have taken part over the past two decades, with the likes of Billie Eilish, Childish Gambino, Arctic Monkeys, and more reinventing classic tracks in the process. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
