Disturbed tenant set NYC apartment blaze, tried to trap neighbors inside, residents and sources say

He's crazy. All of our neighbors have been complaining about the guy. Like he's been here for about a year and they keep calling the police and the police come pick him up and then he just is brought back. It happened a bunch of times."

I said, 'You lighting a fire or something?' 'Cause I could smell something burning. And he rushed me,' he said. 'I froze and [my cousin Natasha VanCartier] just hit him and dropped him. He ran inside to get a knife and when he came back out I grabbed a broom just to keep from getting stabbed, and I said, 'Yo, chill!'

He was going nuts, And then he had the door blocked from the inside, the front door of the building. He blocked it from the inside and he was banging and screaming, 'Fire!'

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