Opinion: Living in NYC isn’t a privilege
By Harvey Epstein Maria has lived in her apartment for more than 40 years. However, a few years ago, a new landlord purchased the building. The landlord started a lot of work in the building and filed...
View ArticleTenants asked to speak at Council hearing on rent stabilization
The Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association is asking neighbors to share their stories about why rent stabilization is needed at an upcoming hearing. On Monday, March 19 at 1 p.m. the...
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TA member recalls first conversation with Blackstone
The ST-PCV Tenants Association’s John Sheehy (pictured) and Blackstone’s AJ Argarwal have neighboring properties in the Hamptons. By Sabina Mollot John Sheehy, treasurer of the ST-PCV Tenants...
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Council calls for stronger rent regs
Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association President Susan Steinberg (at right) waits to give testimony about why rent regulations are needed. (Photo by Maria Rocha-Buschel) By Maria...
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No rent freeze this year, RGB decides in preliminary vote
Tenants react to the board voting down a rent freeze (Photos by Maria Rocha-Buschel) By Maria Rocha-Buschel The possibility of a rent freeze was quashed last Thursday at the Rent Guidelines Board’s...
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Opinion: Why we’re pushing for stronger rent laws early
(Pictured after returning from Albany, left to right) Tom Kuhn, Peter Sullivan, Judy Miller (back row), Mary Garvey, Sherryl Kirschenbaum, Michael Madonia (back row), Susan Steinberg, Patrice Michaels,...
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Meet the Rent Guidelines Board’s new tenant member
Rent Guidelines Board’s two tenant members Sheila Garcia and the newly-appointed Leah Goodridge (Photo by Maria Rocha-Buschel) By Maria Rocha-Buschel New Rent Guidelines Board tenant representative...
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Editorial: Rent-stabilized story tellers wanted
Tenants at this year’s preliminary vote for the Rent Guidelines Board (Photo by Maria Rocha-Buschel) You know spring has sprung when the stories start coming out about jet-setting tenants who Airbnb...
View ArticleOpinion: Same fight, different jersey
By Assembly Member Harvey Epstein In the ‘90s, New York’s legislature sold out tenants and tipped the scales in favor of big landlords by passing the Rent Regulation Reform Act. This piece of...
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Rents will go up by 1.5, 2.5 percent
Tenants protest the dearth and death of affordable housing at the final vote of the Rent Guidelines Board. (Photos by Maria Rocha-Buschel) By Maria Rocha-Buschel The Rent Guidelines Board approved 1.5...
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Cuomo says he’d end vacancy decontrol
Governor Andrew Cuomo By Sabina Mollot Call it the Cynthia Nixon effect. Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has frustrated housing advocates in recent years for not pushing harder for strengthened rent...
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Accusations of racism fly at rent regs hearing
Assembly members at a hearing on rent regulations (Photos by Sabina Mollot) By Sabina Mollot A hearing on Thursday about the rent regulations that are sunsetting this June in Albany at times got heated...
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Albany passes strongest rent regulations ever
Tenants in Albany on Friday (Photos courtesy of Housing Justice for All) By Sabina Mollot On Friday, the governor signed the most tenant-friendly package of rent regulations the state has ever seen,...
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Could a lawsuit really undo the rent regs?
Blaine Schwadel By Sabina Mollot Ever since the new rent regulations — all 74 pages of them — were signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday, real estate attorneys have been scrambling to...
View ArticleOpinion: The rent gamble
By former Assemblymember Steven Sanders With all the changes made last month by the State Legislature in tenant protections and rent regulations, the nine-member New York City Rent Guidelines Board...
View ArticleCity announces changes to NYC Rent Freeze Program
By Maria Rocha-Buschel The de Blasio administration announced last Wednesday that the city will now be able to freeze rents at the preferential level for tenants eligible for the Senior Citizen Rent...
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