u/Remarkable-Beyond470

This is for anyone in the future who renting from or considering renting from the landlord Adriana Bruno. She is deeply unstable and is a terrible landlord to rent from. I could talk forever about how awful she is, but I'll hit the big points:

• Utilities: turned them off at least 5 times. Claimed we were "using too much water", even though she is such a generous landlord and provides more than any other landlord. She would listen for when I got out of the shower, and turn the water off so that my roommate couldn't shower. We called 311 and the city many times, but since the water was always back on in the morning, they couldn't issue any violations. The utility shut off was coupled with harassing texts, her demanding we make our roommate leave, calling our tenancy abuse etc.
• Micromanagement: If I bumped into something taking out the trash after work, I got a call about making too much noise at night. When someone left for work and didn't put the trash back in the garage on the way out, she called me and said she "knew it was me because of the footsteps" (I was asleep) and said we didn't know how to be good neighbors. When my roommate had people for his birthday, she demanded he come downstairs at 10:30 (her strict no noise rule was 11pm) and she told him we needed to live somewhere else because we couldn't follow rules.
• Rent: pic above for this one. She would text me by 9am on the first if I hadn't sent her rent yet. My roommate had zelle issues one month and by the 2nd she was down our throats. (yet when she had zelle issues returning our deposit, she expected all our patience)
• We were not allowed to put trash in the bins in the garage. We had to wait until trash day to put the trash outside. If we didn't sort the recycling how she wanted it, we got a screaming phone call.
• General instability: When we bought a couch that didn't fit, and were keeping it on the curb while we were sorting out what to do with it, I got 7-8 missed calls and screaming voicemails (I was driving) and finally a 20 minute screaming phone call about "what kind of people have I let into my home, what kind of uncivil criminal people are you". When she misread a text I sent her about scheduling a time to spray for roaches, she stormed into our apartment (INTO OUR APARTMENT) and screamed at me for 10 minutes about how I "don't know what busy is, [I] don't don't do anything, [I] don't take care of this apartment, all [I] do is disrespect [her]" (this interaction, and many of the above are fully documented).
• also worth noting, if you read any of the pictures. English is not her first language, yes. My roommate also speaks spanish as a first language, and assures that she is just as unintelligible in spanish.

Again, I could go on. Luckily, there was enough mutual dislike for the living situation that we were easily able to break our lease (she wanted us OUTTA there). We moved out at the same time as the upstairs neighbors (a small family with young kids), for the same reasons. She had begun harassing them, screaming, turning off utilities etc.

The big thing I know someone or many someones will say: we fully intended to bring her to housing court, along with our neighbors. I had a huge family emergency come up right before we were finally able to move, so it just was not possible. God I wish, though. Maybe someone someday.

It does look like someone just rented out that apartment, so godspeed to you soldier. Maybe you'll find this post some day. I wish you only the best.

Edit bc requested: 22-47 Harman St in ridgewood

Just asked my old landlord to send the remaining return of our deposit, as she had been sending it in small chunks over a few days. This was her response. (Further context is she harassed us into leaving by turning the utilities on and off)