By Kim Velsey 3/22 5:33pm

After Sandy

Sandy is still causing headaches. Bureaucratic ones.

Tenants In Sandy-Damaged Buildings Protest Landlord-Friendly Rent Reduction Policy

After Hurricane Sandy, rent-stabilized tenants living in damaged buildings with diminished services were told—and believed—that they would be able to get rent reductions for the entire time they were without services.

The Rent Stabilization Code stipulates that reductions are given from the time the service is lost. But, as rent-stabilized residents at Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town have discovered, they might only be eligible for reductions starting in March—a four-month discrepancy that could be worth thousands of dollars per tenant. Read More

By Kim Velsey 11/29/12 6:30pm

Housing Developments

Overcharged.

Stuyvesant Town Tenants Settle Rent Degregulation Lawsuit, Winning $68.7 M.

The tenants of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village have finally settled their class action suit, winning $68.7 million in damages that will be awarded to tenants who were overcharged on their rent between January 2003 and December 2011 as a result of illegal rent deregulation.

The settlement means an end to the lengthy Roberts v. Tishman Speyer legal battle. Tishman Speyer defaulted on its loans in 2010 and the property is now owned by CW Capital Asset Management LLC. The damages, to be paid by CWCapital (on behalf of the
bondholders’ trust) and former owner MetLife Inc, will be divided among 21,250 tenants in 4,300 units. Read More

By Jess Schiewe 7/27/12 5:22pm

Stuy-mieing News

Hence why one shouldn't turn their stairway into a bathroom. (Photo: Flickr, frankfarm)

Stuy Town May Be City’s Largest Fire Trap

There’s never a shortage of stories about negligent apartment managers and landlords, and the overlords at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village have proved that they are not the exception. As charming as this 25,000-resident complex in the East Village seems with its brick exteriors and tree-lined paths, everything is not peachy-keen. Read More

By Eliot Brown 9/01/10 6:08pm

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Stuy Town Creditors Now Battling About Grammar

Looks like things have gotten so bad in the fight between Stuyvesant Town creditors CW Capital and Pershing Square/Winthrop Realty Trust (PSW), that they’re now fighting over punctuation.

From the latest brief in the ongoing fight, filed yesterday by CW Capital:

Without any explanation, PSW injects the doctrine of last antecedent to convince this Read More

By Eliot Brown 8/10/10 10:54pm

Stuy Town

Enter Ackman

In mid-July, Bill Ackman was relaxing on Nantucket when he got a call on his cell phone. On the other end was Michael Ashner, the CEO of Boston-based Winthrop Realty Trust, who had a plan to grab control of the 11,200-apartment property that occupies a healthy 80-acre chunk of Manhattan’s East Side.

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By Eliot Brown 6/22/10 6:19pm

World's Biggest Property Flop

Foreclosure Ruling in Hand, Stuy Town Heads to Auction Block

Four months after they started the process, the mortgage holders at Stuyvesant Town have received a judgement that permits foreclosure on the 11,200-apartment property.

The judge overseeing the $3 billion foreclosure in federal district court, Alvin Hellerstein, granted the motion to foreclose yesterday.

From Mr. Hellerstein’s ruling:

In their unopposed motion for summary judgment, Plaintiffs have Read More

By Eliot Brown 6/09/10 1:34am

Taking Stuy Town

Al Doyle wants to be a homeowner.

Six months ago, the idea was a far-off concept. But since then, the mustachioed, lifelong Stuyvesant Town resident who is president of the property’s tenants association has seen the desire for a tenant-led purchase of the 11,200-apartment morph into an actual plan of action, as Read More

By Dana Rubinstein 5/12/10 12:39pm

California Steaming

In 2006, just as the real estate market was nearing its sharp crest, California came marching into New York City.

In deal after deal, the Golden State’s two main pension funds—the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, which collectively manage a mammoth $330 billion on behalf of teachers and Read More