Brooklyn tenants are trying to dismantle barriers around a seldom-used 1960s-era law that can prohibit landlords from collecting rent when they fail to fix dangerous building conditions for months on end. The campaign just had its first breakthrough.
Ruth S. Fleishman, an outdoorswoman and medical transcriptionist for United Cerebral Palsy at the Delray School, died of congestive heart failure at Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville. She was 92.