The DOB recently implemented its “Stay Safe. Stay Put” campaign to remind New Yorkers that if one becomes stuck in an elevator, the safest place to be is inside the car. According to the DOB, elevators are among the very safest forms of...
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman recently announced the unsealing of a 50-count indictment charging Matthew Pappalardo and his former employer, HiRise Engineering, P.C., with allegedly altering engineering reports prepared in connection with the assessment...
At a recent news conference with city officials, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, detailed an indictment charging a building owner, his manager, and a contractor with reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child, and other...
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development recently issued a reminder that property owners and managing agents of multifamily residential buildings and certain one- and two-family homes are obligated to annually register their...
Forty-one out of fifty-one New York City council members have signed on as co-sponsors of a bill that would require photoelectric smoke detectors in residential buildings. Fire safety experts have debated for years the merits of the cheaper and more popular...
If your residential building has small commercial tenants, you’ll need to heed a new law recently signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio. The law is designed to shield commercial tenants from landlord harassment....
A Manhattan Supreme Court Justice recently granted a temporary restraining order in response to a lawsuit submitted by the Rent Stabilization Association.
The City Council recently released a report entitled, “Landmarks for the Future,” with several new proposals to alter the way the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) works. The city council made similar proposals last year. This year, the...
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman recently announced that a landlord and developer of an Upper West Side building will pay the city a $500,000 settlement for illegally buying two elderly, rent-controlled tenants out of their units, and later trying to conceal...
On May 3, the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) voted on preliminary increases for next year for the city’s rent-stabilized apartments. The nine-member board voted 5-4 in favor of increases of 0 percent to 2 percent on one-year leases and 0.5 percent to 3.5...
According to a recent report by the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), 42 percent, or 5,885 of the 13,755 low-income units built in 2014 and 2015, were aided by the 421-a program. That study included 156 projects that were either all low-income or mostly...
Mayor Bill de Blasio recently proposed a $183 summer credit on the water and sewer bills of over 664,000 homeowners, in keeping with the city's past efforts to ensure bills stay as low as possible. The 664,000 homeowners represent almost 80 percent of all...
