NY1 For You: Brooklyn Tenant Gets Heat After Months in Cold

Tenants of one Brooklyn building struggling to get heat in bitterly cold temperatures finally get relief after getting help from "NY1 For You." NY1's Susan Jhun filed this follow up report.

These days when renter Tracy Berkley comes home he can take off his jacket without freezing.

"I no longer have to get up three or four times a night to check my space heater or run the shower for twenty minutes to heat the bathroom up," Berkley says.

That's a luxury for the Brooklyn tenant who we first told you about last week. Berkley had been living without any heat since November when a fire broke the building's boiler, leaving the asthmatic renter in the cold, using any means to stay warm.

"I've got the oven on and I've got the electric heaters on and I've got blankets," Berkley says.

Berkley told us a new boiler was installed after the fire and turned on briefly but since then he said the building manager refused to turn the heat back on.

We contacted the manager for the building and he told us even though a new boiler was installed and heat could be provided, the pipe line size was not big enough for the boiler, cooking gas and hot water heater.

He said he knew it was cold and that's why he was encouraging tenants to move out.

We contacted the Department of Housing Preservation & Development and National Grid, and the two agencies came out immediately to work to get the heat back on.

"I am so grateful for NY1. I'm grateful to have heat," Berkley says.

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NY1 For You: Brooklyn Tenant Gets Heat After Months in Cold