Bay Ridge apartment dwellers demand discounted rent for months with no gas

Residents of a Bay Ridge apartment building are demanding their landlord discount their rent for the nearly half a year they lived without cooking gas — but the landlord is insisting the tenants pay up.

“All we ask, we want an abatement, we want you to hear us,” said a resident named Jasmine. “[We want you to know] it wasn’t easy for us to go on without gas and other problems that have been going on with the building. “