A group of tenants in a Crown Heights building filed a lawsuit against the owners of their building Wednesday, demanding $2 million in excess rent and damages.

In the complaint, which was filed in Kings County Supreme Court, three staff attorneys for Brooklyn Legal Services argued that the tenants’ longtime landlord, Rubin Dukler, continued to raise the rent despite a 2002 government-ordered rent freeze and serious problems in the building.

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