This one is a real heart breaker. A dead infant already turned blue and stone cold is found on a hospital floor in the emergency room which brings Paul Sorvino and Chris Noth on the case. After a lot of leg work the blue blanket the victim was wrapped in leads them to Bruklin Ward the baby's mother.
The tale she tells is how she was living in a rent controlled building in an apartment she inherited from her grandmother. The building has a superintendent Jose Tirado who doesn't maintain anything and an enforcer Rocco Sisto who harasses the tenants verbally and physically. In fact Noth catches Sisto right in the act.
They work for landlady Karen Lynn Gorney who is a mini-me copy of Leona Helmsley Manhattan's Queen of Mean. I guess Gorney rates being a duchess in a scaled down version of Helmsley's modus operandi.
Richard Brooks gets a lot of credit for being the one who brings the previously thought of untouchable Gorney down. You have to see how he does it.
The various Law And Order shows did episodes on the rent control laws. This is one of the best.
The tale she tells is how she was living in a rent controlled building in an apartment she inherited from her grandmother. The building has a superintendent Jose Tirado who doesn't maintain anything and an enforcer Rocco Sisto who harasses the tenants verbally and physically. In fact Noth catches Sisto right in the act.
They work for landlady Karen Lynn Gorney who is a mini-me copy of Leona Helmsley Manhattan's Queen of Mean. I guess Gorney rates being a duchess in a scaled down version of Helmsley's modus operandi.
Richard Brooks gets a lot of credit for being the one who brings the previously thought of untouchable Gorney down. You have to see how he does it.
The various Law And Order shows did episodes on the rent control laws. This is one of the best.