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Brooklyn, The Borough: My Angel Gave Me Hell
It’s easy to feel helpless and vulnerable during your apartment search, tired of hoofing it from place to place, and
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Brooklyn, The Borough: A Personal Wire
Apparently it’s quite controversial to discuss the experience of living in Brooklyn when it comes to the topic of race.
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Landlord Myths
Ask most apartment tenants or tenant advocacy organizers to describe the typical New York City landlord and they would likely
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How Long Before You Can’t Smoke in Your Apartment?
First they came for the bars, then they came for the parks. Now it could even become harder for New
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Bad Math: Three Landlords Arrested for 500 Violations in Two Brooklyn Buildings
There are slumlords and then there are slumlords. Three Brooklyn landlords were arrested yesterday for failing to address a combined
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Harlem Landlords Like Their Buildings Empty, Actually
While some say Harlem is the city’s new housing hotspot, hundreds of empty residential buildings bespeak serious issues still affecting
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Renters Outraged: RGB Votes To Raise Rents Again
Surprise! The rent is going up again next year. In a move that surprised no one, the Rent Guidelines Board
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So Much for Rent ‘Stabilization': Guidelines Board Approves Hefty Rent Hike
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. On Thursday night, the Rent Guidelines Board voted to jack up the rent
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Quinn Slams de Blasio for Taking Money From Landlords Who Also Gave to Her
Mayoral candidate Christine Quinn slammed rival Bill de Blasio this morning following a Daily News report that revealed he’d accepted
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It’s Not All Luxury Condos: City’s ‘Worst’ 187 Buildings Total 26,000 Open...
As more and more of New York is colonized by gleaming luxury towers and elegant condo conversions, the grim experience
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Doormen Reach a Tentative Agreement With Landlords
This afternoon, the union representing New York City's 30,000 doormen, superintendents, handypersons and porters announced that it had reached a tentative agreement that would provide for 11.3 percent...
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Rent Freeze! Rent Guidelines Board Approves Historic Zero Percent Increase
The Rent Guidelines Board voted for a historic zero percent increase on rent-regulated units on Monday night, the first time in its 46 year history that it has frozen rents. It approved a zero percent...
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Gags to Riches: New Tenant Laws Limit Buyout Options
Mayor de Blasio signed new legislation on September 3 that creates additional restrictions and penalties for landlords that behave in a way that constitutes the new description of harassment.
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Afternoon Bulletin: NYC Schools Go Untested for Lead, Fire Rages Through...
1,000 New York City public schools have gone at least ten years without having the running water tested for lead contamination.
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AG Indicts Manhattan Landlord Steve Croman Over $45M in Faulty Loan Apps
Steve Croman, a Manhattan landlord, was indicted this morning on charges that he tried to muscle out rent stabilized tenants.
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Manhattan DA, Public Advocate’s Message to Harlem Landlord: Don’t Mess With...
The Manhattan district attorney announced charges against a landlord and others for unsafe conditions at an East Harlem apartment building.
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(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...
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The mayor says New York City would be the first city to mandate that current buildings dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions.
View ArticleJudge Wants to Jail Negligent Bronx Landlord
Though Joel Loutan has earned a nod in the New York Public Advocate Office’s Worst Landlords Watchlist, he has yet
View ArticleLandlords Speak Out: What They Want From Airbnb
While landlords side with the Attorney General in his crusade against Airbnb, some seek middle ground.
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