A city landlord who lives in a $3 million Long Island mansion pays his building supers and porters as little as $3.45 an hour while housing them in rat-infested hovels, a new lawsuit charges.
Real-estate mogul Irving Langer paid two of his supers a paltry $275 to $400 a week, even though they toiled an average of 80 hours fixing tenants’ toilets, taking out their trash and trying to get rid of vermin, according to the men’s multimillion-dollar class-action suit filed Monday in Manhattan federal court.
The former supers added that they were given living quarters that were moldy, leaky and rat-infested.
“No bathroom, no sink, no cabinets, no nothing,’’ said one of the plaintiffs, Usvaldo Contrera, 51.
The suit seeks back wages and overtime on behalf of more than 250 workers, said their lawyer, Marc Rapaport.
A rep for Langer — who owns 3,000 rental units, mostly in low-income buildings — and his business, E&M Associates, declined to comment, saying they were not aware of the lawsuit