Exclusive | I live above a noisy NYC laundromat whose vibrations and fumes are ruining my life and I have nowhere to go

Last fall, when Dorian Solomon viewed the East Harlem studio apartment she now calls home, construction kept her from noticing the commotion from the Miss Bubble laundromat on the ground floor, directly below.Since moving in, however, the disruption from the laundromat has been tormenting her with noise, vibration and fumes during all waking hours, while a boiler ticks noisily around the clock.“I feel like a zombie,” Solomon told The Post.“In a small studio, there is nowhere to escape.” The low-frequency vibration is a “heavy hum that resonates in your chest and penetrates right through earplugs and white noise,” said Solomon, 42, whose $2,550 monthly rent at the East 118th Street building is paid by a city housing assistance program.

 “I walk outside for hours daily simply to escape,” she said.“I am exhausted, distressed and emotionally drained.” Miss Bubble, sometimes labeled Ms.

Bubble, has 32 branches in Manhattan and Brooklyn, with a website calling it “New York’s best laundry service,” stating that “all of our work is done on our premises — we don’t use off-site services.This way we can manage and oversee every aspect of our cleaning process ensuring best practices for you and for us all.” Solomon wonders why commercial laundromats are even allowed inside residential buildings.“Behind that business listing is a tenant living with constant vibration, combustion fumes and chronic health symptoms, and a city enforcement system where every agency treats the problem as someone else’s job,” she said. Last spring, Solomon sued the landlord, Akari Equities, to obtain repairs.

The landlord’s lawyer, Eric Kahan, wrote in court documents that the landlord “never failed or refused to correct any violations in the subject premises,” but is also “willing and ready” to correct any that do exist. And if the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development did issue any violations, the landlord “does not c...