The Manhattan District Attorney is overseeing the investigation into the deadly building explosion that occurred last month in the East Village. The explosion caused two buildings to collapse and ignited a large fire that quickly spread to...
On March 30, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law Intro. 685, which extends the city's rent stabilization laws for another three years, until April 1, 2018. The mayor has asked Albany to also follow the city's suit as the Urstadt Law of 1971...
A U.S. appeals court recently ruled that an elderly Manhattan woman's rent-stabilized lease could not be seized and sold to satisfy her creditors after she filed for bankruptcy. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the rent-stabilized...
Under legislation recently introduced in the City Council, residential buildings would not be allowed to block tenants from bringing their bicycles into their apartments. The proposal is sponsored by Transportation Committee Chairman Ydanis...
The Comptroller's office recently criticized the city's housing courts over having inadequate services for those who don't speak English. "In a city with nearly two million individuals with limited English proficiency, it is...
New York City and State officials recently announced the creation of a multi-agency task force aimed at finding and penalizing bad landlords. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman spoke of the task force as an unprecedented...
Carl Heastie was elected speaker of the New York State Assembly on Feb. 3, making him the first African American to hold the powerful position. Heastie, a Democrat from the Bronx, succeeds Sheldon Silver who resigned after being charged with...
Lower Manhattan councilwoman Margaret Chin is proposing a bill that would require owners the HPD suspects of bad behavior to place 10 percent of a building's rent rolls from a five-year period into an escrow account. The city would use the money...
HPD recently halted plans by an owner of an Upper West Side residential building to convert 69 rent-stabilized apartments into high-end apartments. The denial occurred after an administrative law judge ruled that the owner was harassing rent-...
A Manhattan judge recently ordered an Upper West Side rent-controlled tenant to stop renting out her apartment on Airbnb. Records show that the tenant, a mostly unemployed 62-year-old, was taking in around $78,000 per year renting out bedrooms in...
Regulations that went into effect in July 2012 require building owners to end their use of dirty heating oil by the time their current three-year boiler permits expire or June 30, 2015, whichever comes first.
