Adam Schleser has lived in the six-building Jewish Hospital complex in Crown Heights since the summer of 2018, and in his current, ground-floor one-bedroom since the fall of 2020.
Schleser said that the apartment had some unaddressed noise issues—but the rent stabilization and enjoyable neighborhood made up for that.
Then, in mid-October 2024, Schleser began hearing what he soon realized were rats in his walls. "I just heard moving around, a bit of scratching," he told Hell Gate.
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