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RGB shoots down rent rollback
Tenants in front of the CUNY graduate center before the vote on Wednesday evening. (Photo by Maria Rocha-Buschel) Rent freeze still a possibility for one-year leases By Maria Rocha-Buschel Tenants...
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ST-PCV TA asking neighbors to tweet for stronger rent laws
A tenant holds up a note in a photo posted on the ST-PCV Tenants Association’s Twitter feed this week. By Sabina Mollot With the rent law negotiations in Albany just a couple of weeks away, The ST-PCV...
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East 13th St. tenants accusing landlord of harassment
Residents demonstrated outside their building last Thursday to protest aggressive buyout tactics and other ways they say the landlord is harassing them. (Photos by Maria Rocha-Buschel) By Maria...
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Letter from CR on rent laws
The following letter has been distributed by CompassRock to Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village residents concerning the expiration of the rent laws: Dear Residents, As you may know, the Rent...
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Rent regs expire with no hint of progress in Albany
ST-PCV Tenants Association Chair Susan Steinberg and other tenants at a vigil on Sunday outside the midtown Manhattan office of Governor Cuomo. (Photo by Anne Greenberg) By Sabina Mollot It wasn’t...
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Tenants and owners take their case to RGB
Stuyvesant Town residents sit in the audience at the hearing. On the right is Marietta Hawkes, a 38-year resident who gave testimony. (Photo by Sabina Mollot) By Sabina Mollot With the Rent Guidelines...
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Albany extends Rent Stabilization Laws for five days
Susan Steinberg, Al Doyle, Margaret Salacan, Anne Greenberg and Kirstin Aadahl, Margaret Salacan and a resident of the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association protest outside a...
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Tenants blast ‘framework’ deal for rent regulations
Assembly Member Carl Heastie, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (Photo via Governor Andrew Cuomo Flickr) By Sabina Mollot On Tuesday afternoon, the rent regulations, over a...
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Politics & Tidbits: Playing chess in Albany
By Steven Sanders, former Assembly member, 74th District Steven Sanders To begin to understand the machination of Albany politics especially with the state legislature, a basic understanding of chess...
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Tenants finally get that rent freeze
Tenants packed the Cooper Union auditorium on Monday for a brief vote that resulted in a historic rent freeze. (Photos by Maria Rocha-Buschel) By Maria Rocha-Buschel The Rent Guidelines Board voted for...
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Letters to the Editor, December 3
Our future (as witnessed on the 14th St. bus) Standing in the front of a crowded 14th Street bus on the way to my physical therapy, I looked with envy at all the teens and twenty-somethings packing...
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Landlord group files suit to stop city rent freeze
The Rent Guidelines Board (Photo by Sabina Mollot) By Christian Bautista The city’s biggest landlord organization is looking to build a winning streak in the courts as it sues the Rent Guidelines...
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Letters to the Editor, Oct. 13
Cartoon by Jim Meadows No option to downsize for the stabilized Re: “800 ST/PCV residents who qualify for SCRIE/DRIE haven’t enrolled,” T&V, Sept. 29 Despite being many months away from being...
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Letters to the Editor, Jan. 5
Cartoon by Jim Meadows Hey, T&V, watch your language Re: “Man drops pants, pees in view of kids across from PS 116,” T&V, Dec. 29, 2016 I was disturbed to read about a homeless man openly...
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Tenants rally for rent rollback before first RGB meeting
Tenants rallied outside 1 Centre Street on Thursday (Photos by Maria Rocha-Buschel) By Maria Rocha-Buschel Rent stabilized tenants geared up for the upcoming Rent Guidelines Board vote at a rally...
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Stabilized buildings in ST, Gramercy saw highest rent hikes in city from...
Harvey Epstein, a tenant member of the Rent Guidelines Board, pictured at last year’s preliminary vote (Photo by Maria Rocha-Buschel) By Maria Rocha-Buschel Rent-stabilized buildings in the Stuyvesant...
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Baruch professor appointed as a public member of RGB
Hilary Botein said she was surprised to be asked to serve on the board. (Photo courtesy of Hilary Botein) By Sabina Mollot Last Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced two new appointments to the Rent...
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Opinion: Five tips to testify effectively for fair rent in front of the RGB
Some of the members of the Rent Guidelines Board, pictured at a hearing last year (Photo by Maria Rocha-Buschel) By Angela Pham, member, Met Council on Housing At my day job, I’m a professional...
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Letters to the editor, June 15
It’s a playground, not a bark park I honestly do not mind people in Stuyvesant Town owning dogs. For the most part, so far, our walks and playgrounds are still fairly clean. I don’t even mind...
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‘Bernie Madoff of landlords’ gets one year in jail
Steve Croman By Kyle Campbell One of the cityʼs most notorious landlords has been jailed for a year in a rare move by State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to sound a warning bell to unscrupulous...
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