It seems the far-reaching impacts of last week’s tremendous Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village court ruling will wait some time to take effect.
A court on Friday gave Stuy Town landlord Tishman Speyer a stay in having to take any actions after the decision last week, waiting until the results of an appeals process Read More
On Thursday morning, Alexander Schmidt, a partner at Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz, received a phone call from an appellate court clerk. A decision was on its way about Roberts v. Tishman Speyer, the clerk said, a major rent-stabilization case in which Mr. Schmidt represented a group of tenants suing the mega-landlord Read More
The battle by tenant advocates to repeal a key rent regulation law favored by landlords just got a boost from a Republican.
Last week, Frank Padavan, a Republican state Senator from Queens with an independent streak, signed on as a co-sponsor to a bill that would repeal vacancy decontrol, a law that allows Read More
The battle by tenant advocates to repeal a key rent regulation law favored by landlords just got a boost from a Republican.
Last week Frank Padavan, a Republican state senator from Queens, signed on as a co-sponsor to a bill that would repeal vacancy decontrol, a law that allows Read More
Council Speaker Christine Quinn unveiled a plan today for the city to buy unsold luxury condominiums and turn them into subsidized housing for middle-income families. Speaking in her state of the city address this afternoon, Ms. Quinn said the initiative would “add thousands of new affordable homes."
The announcement comes one year after Ms. Read More
The path to rent-regulation reform in New York City may lie through Rochester.
Tenants PAC, a political action committee whose stated mission is to strengthen New York’s rent-regulation laws, has donated thousands of dollars to Democratic candidate Rick Dollinger, who’s trying to regain a Senate seat in Rochester. The group has also sent money to Read More
City Room has a Q-and-A thread going on rent-stabilization with housing lawyer Joel E. Abramson. Wonder why.
Conservative watchdog the National Legal and Policy Center has called on the Federal Election Commission to investigate Congressman Charles Rangel’s rent-stabilized apartments in Harlem, including one used as a campaign office.
Release on the FEC complaint here. More on the Rangel imbroglio in The Observer here and here. (Hat tip: Curbed).
In his colorful response today to a Times story on the four rent-stabilized apartments he rents, Representative Charles Rangel said repeatedly (as captured in video by The Observer’s Azi Paybarah) that the below-market-rate apartments are not a gift (which would need to be reported per campaign finance law).
“If you’re Read More
Hat tip: Politicker.
