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Councilman joins tenants decrying elevator death

A city councilman has joined residents of a NYCHA building at Boston Road Plaza in demanding the city take responsibility for the gruesome death of a tenant who hit his head leaping from a faulty elevator.

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Dec 31, 2015, 7:30 PM

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