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A boiling-mad NYCHA tenant scorched Scott Stringer as the city comptroller tried to press the Housing Authority for answers about its foot-dragging on tenant heating complaints Saturday.

“You come to the meetings that we would have last year and you made promises and you haven’t kept one,” said Barbara Stevens, who laid into Stringer at a news conference at the Grant Houses in East Harlem.

Stringer, who was announcing a subpoena against NYCHA after the agency ignored his prior attempts to audit their heating system, tried to deflect Stevens’ criticism.

“I don’t run NYCHA,” he said.

But the angry tenant was done serving as a prop.

“Regardless, you speak for the people and you have done nothing,” she said.

Stevens, who has lived in the Grant Houses for seven years, listed a litany of wrongs.

“There was no hot water for the holidays, there was no hot water for the past two weeks. When it was 18 degrees there was no heat,” she said.

“It’s ridiculous,” she said, adding, “The city does not pay my rent — I pay my own rent. Simply because we live in the projects it doesn’t mean we can be treated like hood rats.”

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