Burning fury at a bad landlord

No rebuild after B’klyn blaze

EIGHT BROOKLYN residents who lost everything in a 2015 fire and were subsequently displaced will be in court Wednesday for a contempt of court hearing against their landlord.

Macelina Osorio, 40, is one of the rent-stabilized tenants who lived at 263 Prospect Park West until a fire ripped through it in Feb. 2015.

Landlord Heung Sang Tam agreed to do a complete renovation within four months of the Department of Buildings signing off on his new plans. More than a year later, nothing’s changed.

“He hasn’t done a thing, it’s the same as the day it was shut down,” said Osorio, who has lived there for 14 years.

She paid $1,225 for the large studio with her husband Clemente Garcia, 41, and their sons, Giovanni, 13, and 20-month-old Matthew. But for the past year, the family’s been in a Bronx shelter — far from friends and family. She gets Section 8 vouchers from the city and is being pressured to leave the shelter, she said.

“We have until June 6 before our vouchers run out but we can’t find a place that will take Section 8,” she said.

Giovanni, who suffers from muscular dystrophy, lost two months at his special Long Island school, she said.

Osorio and the other tenants hired an attorney to file court papers to try and get Tam to show cause as to why the building remains derelict.

The landlord submitted an overhaul plan to DOB in Dec. 2015 but it was rejected. The agency told him to resubmit, but the landlord has yet to do so, said tenant attorney Jane Landry-Reyes.

The tenants want the court to hold the landlord in contempt and impose a fine or imprisonment.

Calls to Tam were not returned.