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Emily Ratajkowski Is Defending Her Husband Against Claims That He’s Not Paying Rent

Ratajkowski says her movie producer husband isn't a rich freeloader.
By Morgan Halberg
Buyouts can mean a headach—or a windfall—for tenants.

(Almost) Every Tenant Has His Price

In a city where development parcels are in hot demand, rent-stabilized properties are natural targets. Before you can build, though, you have to somehow accommodate existing residents, and while stabilization is primarily a tool to protect New York’s middle class from a voracious housing market, the ongoing building boom has given some rent-stabilized tenants shots at a jackpot.
By Adam Bonislawski
demonstration arrests

Afternoon Bulletin: 40 Arrested at Protest March, NYPD Changes Tactics After Dallas

40 people were arrested at a demonstration against police shootings yesterday and the NYPD is changing tactics after the Dallas attacks.
By Josh Keefe
Mayor Bill de Blasio. (Photo: AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)

Freeze the Rent! Power to the People! May Day!

By The Editors
It's going up of course.

So Much for Rent ‘Stabilization’: Guidelines Board Approves Hefty Rent Hike

By Kim Velsey
An illegal hotel that was busted on the UWS. (The Mayor's Office, via Dnainfo)

Vicious Vacancies: City Council Raises Fines On Illegal Hoteliers

By Kim Velsey
Coming on the market soon? (Google maps)

After Supreme Court Declines To Hear Case, Harmons Now Considering Selling Townhouse

By Kim Velsey
Where's the rent? (dpapworth, flickr)

Rent-Regulated Tenants Are On A Winning Streak

By Kim Velsey

Renters Relieved! Life Returns to Normal After Supreme Court Turns Down Harmon Case

By Kim Velsey

Supreme Court Declines To Hear Harmon Rent Control Case

By Kim Velsey
No one's happy about New York City rent

Nobody Likes The Rent Guidelines Board—Quinn, Squadron, Williams Rally, Take to Name Calling

By Kim Velsey
The place that could pull down the rent regs house of cards. (Property Shark)

Where’s the Rent? Supreme Court Witholds Decision on Whether or Not to Hear Rent Control Case

By Matt Chaban
Decision time. Will the Supreme Court hear the rent control case? (IslesPunkFan, flickr)

Does the End of Rent Control Start Today? Supreme Court Will Decide Whether or Not to Hear UWS Suit

By Kim Velsey
Fifty-five bucks to live here? Hot damn! (PropertyShark)

At $55 a Month, This May Be the Cheapest Apartment in New York, Let Alone Soho

By Michael Ewing
SoHo (Photo from TravelAdventures.org)

Is That Rent-Controlled Soho Loft Really Worth It?

By Elise Knutsen

Could Rent Control Die by Decade’s End?

By Matt Chaban

It’s Old People vs. Landlords in Vanishing Rent-Controlled Apartments

By Laura Kusisto

Tenants Group: Some Senate Dems Betrayed Us

By Eliot Brown

Hopes Dimming for Tenant-Backed Bills as Albany Session Ends

By Eliot Brown

The Grande Dame of New York City Land Use

By Reid Pillifant

Spotlight on the Skylights at Carnegie Hall Landmarks Hearing

By Reid Pillifant

Silver: With Senate Flip, 2009 Will Be ‘Year of the Tenant’

By Jimmy Vielkind
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