Residents at a senior living building in Crown Heights say it shouldn’t take a rally to get heat in the middle of a cold snap.

During the rally outside the building, tenants showed photos of thermometer readings well below the legal limits.

“It’s 50 degrees in my apartment. Fifty degrees,” tenant Deborah Turner said.

City law requires landlords to maintain at least 68 degrees during the day and 62 degrees at night from October through May.

Residents of the building say they’ve filed complaints before, yet outages like this continue.

“That’s not fair. I pay my rent on time, and you tell me I can’t get [any] heat,” tenant Victor Griles said.

Griles invited NY1 inside his apartment to show how he’s been getting through the cold.

“My bedroom is the coldest place in the house,” Griles sa

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