By DAVID CRUZ

In the 43 years that Suzanne has lived at 95 W. 195th St. in Kingsbridge Heights, her standard of living has progressively gone from bad to worse.

She’s left with memories of yesteryear when things were in better shape. “It’s deteriorated to the point where there is no turning back,” said Suzanne, 63, who asked her last name be withheld for fear of her landlord.

And yet despite those fears from the building owner, known to be negligible and at times vindictive, Suzanne has made it her priority to right wrongs in the six-story, pre-war building—those include chronically noisy tenants above her, an illegal laundry room with no signs of correction, unreliable cooking gas, and an indifference by tenants who prefer to keep their heads down than take on a faceless landlord. Many of them refused to go on the record. By all accounts, Suzanne is alone, trapped in an apartment building that’s offered her rent stabilization.

“The handful of tenants don’t want to back me,” said Suzanne, a rent-stabilized tenant. Though she’s had some small victories that involved some tenant meetings, support consistently fizzles out. “They want to fight, but they just don’t know how to go about it.”

It seems fitting for Suzanne to serve as a building crusader. Her father worked for the NYPD at one point. In her quest, she’s learned to catalogue her complaints in a green folder, filing photographs of the building’s shoddy work, and police records detailing murders in the building that stretch to the 1990s. The paperwork substantiates her claims. She’s the building’s go-to cop, hoping to build a case to topple the landlord.

“I started learning as I went along,” said Suzanne, unemployed and living on a fixed income. Despite this, she has found navigating the Housing Court system, wrangling with the NYPD, and obtaining records through Freedom of Information requests to be full time work.

In February, Suzanne remembered “a lot of things started happening” within the property. Among the more recent incidents was a faulty gas system that disabled cooking gas. “There was no gas in the building to cook,” recalled Suzanne. “The pilot light went out on Feb. 26. Con Edison was not informed of this, which they should have been. I notified Con Ed, they notified the police. This could’ve been a horrible situation. That management was supposed to notify Con Ed.”

Had the gas leak remained undetected, the building would’ve exploded, a similar situation that played out in Harlem earlier this year.

Michael Edelstein, a Brooklyn businessman, purchased the building in 1986, according to city records. But Edelstein, owner of several other properties in the Bronx, gradually allowed the building to fall into decline. Mayor Bill de Blasio, at the time the city’s Public Advocate, placed Edelstein under the now defunct NYC Worst Landlord Watch List, a public condemnation against unscrupulous landlords. His office did not comment.

The city Housing Preservation and Development agency has intervened on several occasions, recording 61 violations that still remain unresolved. Those include lead paint chips in a fifth floor apartment discovered in 1999 to bolted trash chutes at several floors.

Suzanne has taken her complaints to Bronx Housing Court, which she’s compared to a meat market, where folks “take a number” waiting for their case to process. She’s noticed Edelstein’s attorneys at court appearing quite busy, with tenants at Edelstein owned buildings zipping in and out of courtrooms.

Many tenants simply have given up. One of Suzanne’s neighbors, a city EMT, grew fed up. After five years, she decided to move but not before asking Suzanne how she can put up with it all.

“I guess the only way to answer her is that it used to be good many years ago and then I didn’t have the money,” said Suzanne. “That was my answer.”