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When tenants at 348 East 110th Street turn on the faucet, they have no hot water. When they try the stove knob, they have no gas.

One tenant, who says she is afraid to be identified, told NY1 it is no way to live.

"I called first Con Edison and Con Edison said that the fault is not them, it's the landlord," she said. "There's a leak in the basement that they have to fix. After one week nothing has been done, so I start calling 311."

Now that the weather is getting cold, the problem is only getting worse:

"I live with my daughter, sometimes she has to go to bed at midnight, because I have to heat water to take showers. It's not easy," she said.

The tenant has a hot plate to cook and heat water, but she said it has only made her electric bill go up.

There are seven units in the four-story building and all of them are affected in all kinds of ways.

"Two days with no lights in the hallway, garbage piled up to the ceiling. You know, this building is not liveable," said another tenant.

The Department of Housing Preservation and Development has been on-site and issued 131 violations against the building and the owner, including inadequate hot water and a locked boiler room.

NY1 found the building's owner at a deli he also owns around the corner, and he declined a request for an on-camera interview.

Off-camera, Jamal Alsaidi told NY1 he got a new boiler about eight months ago and then got new pipes. The problem is, no one had actually seen the work.

The Department of Buildings said the building failed its first two inspections because the installer failed to show up.

The next inspection is scheduled for next week, and if it passes, Con Ed says it will reintroduce gas.

Meanwhile, it is just hot plates and cold showers for the affected East Harlem tenants.