Manhattan —
Water doesn’t trickle down from the right basin of Jeanette Davis‘ sink – it pours.
Puddles have formed under the kitchen cabinet of her W. 135th St. apartment, and the 58-year-old recently used a broom to evict a live rat from her neighbor’s mailbox.
“And this is what I go through every day,” she said.
But starting this winter, her building and its nine six-story companions along a historic row between Lenox and Seventh Aves. will be among the first affordable housing blocks in the country to undergo a green overhaul.