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The wheelchair-bound actress who starred in the HBO series the Sopranos is one 15 residents at 260 E. 72nd Street who have been without heat and hot water for nearly a week.

Fran Anthony, 87, whose character was whacked from the show complained that “it’s too cold for me to even order any food because I don’t want to stand in that hall and answer the intercom.” Anthony who is covered in blankets and is running a space heater to keep warm in her fourth-floor apartment.

Anthony complained that “a lot of her neighbors have friends they can go to . . . [but] I don’t have anybody.”

Anthony starred as Minn Matrone in the fourth season in the mafia series and was killed off when Soprano capo Paul “Paulie Walnuts,” who played the son of Matrone’s friend. Gualtieri smothered her with a pillow when she caught the wiseguy trying to rob her house.

Because of the temperatures dropped into the low 30s Saturday into Sunday, Anthony complained that it has become a struggle for her to to keep clean by bathing or showering because she’s too cold to get out from below the blankets.

“I have to take everything off to go to the bathroom,” Anthony said. Adding that “even her hands, when you use the toilet, you want to wash your hands, but it’s freezing cold.”

The location which is on the corner of 72nd and 2nd Avenue was sold at the end of last month. The prior owner had put in an outdoor boiler after the one in the basement stopped working around the time of the sale according to Matrone’s neighbor Carole Cusa, a resident of the building for 41 years.

On Sunday, the city Buildings Department confirmed that the last owner had called for an emergency work order to put in an outdoor boiler on October 30th. However, once the building was sold, the outdoor boiler inexplicably was removed from service and has not been replaced according to Cusa.

“We’ve been calling [the hotline] 311 repeatedly since Wednesday,” she added. “It seems to be taking an awful long time to fix the problem.”

The new management company said that it has delivered heaters to all residents of the building on Friday and is “working around the clock to get this resolved.”

Cusa’s response to the new managements claim is “why is it taking so long to get heat and hot water?”

By: Andrew Schiff

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