While Charles Rangel lived across the street in luxury Harlem digs, his tenants coped with collapsing ceilings, sinking floors and roaches.
In just one apartment in the six-unit building on West 132nd Street, city inspectors found nine violations in 2003. Rangel and his wife, Alma — the landlords — were ordered to repair the wood floor in the entire apartment, plaster, paint, fix broken bathroom tiles and faulty window frames, and get rid of roaches and mice.
The city also found that the Rangels failed to file the building’s annual occupancy statement five times between 1982 and 1996.