Mott Haven tenants triumph over landlord, regain cooking gas after 16 months

Residents of 230 Brook Ave. in the South Bronx are celebrating a successful organizing effort that led to the reinstatement of their cooking gas following a 16-month outage.
When the gas was initially shut off, it didn’t seem like there would be a long-term problem, said a 60-year-old tenant who spoke with the Bronx Times but did not want his name published for fear of backlash from the management company, Langsam Property Services Corporation. The Bronx Times contacted the company but did