The Polish National Alliance building at 1627 Eastern Ave, Baltimore City has been overrun by homeless people for a long time. The front door is usually locked, but has been pried open by homeless people many times. This must be stopped. They smoke crack, shoot dope, have sex, sleep all over the place, defecate and urinate in many places and leave trash all the time. They refuse to leave when told, including: one account of threatened rape in the laundry room; one of a fake maintenance man with a knife who attempted to gain entrance to an apartment; two accounts of maintenance men in physical confrontations with homeless men; one incident of a male member of the Alliance in a physical confrontation. Residents' packages delivered to the address are often stolen - including many medicines.
The elevator goes out of service several times a year. We residents are never informed of what the status is of an elevator repair happening, including no posted signs about it by the elevator. One resident declares that there have been outstanding bills not paid to elevator repair. One resident says that the building is condemned. Another says there is a $44,000 water bill.
When I moved in, there was no permit for muti-family unit dwelling rentals. My apartment never has had working heat, as others do not. The hallways are not heated. We are low-income seniors, disabled and there are government subsidies to this property. Most of us cannot afford to move, though we desperately need to get out of here. There are only a few low-res video cameras installed, and none on the 3rd & 4th floors where the apartments are, not on the 2 sets of steps, nor the laundry room. A camera facing the entrance has recorded all the homeless traffic, plus some of the package thefts (though some occurred from in front of apartment doors.
The first floor has a bar, and an auditorium from when the place was a Polish Catholic School built in 1923. Second floor is a Polish library and history collection. There are other negative aspects of the building, but what's said already is enough for you to know the horrendous situation. More is on the videos, plus in the 3rd post below.
At 4:45 in this video, I show you doors that had not been locked then some months ago they became locked and no resident has a key to use the steps. The elevator broke for some days after the doors became locked and we had to leave one of the double doors propped open and we were hoping no one would close it.
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November 2023
October 1, 2024
1627 Eastern Ave 10/28/2024
1627 Eastern Ave 4th Floor Homeless 10/30/2024
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