Alterations to Apartments: Tenant Renovated Bathroom Without Landlord’s Permission
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for creating a nuisance and for violating his lease by performing unauthorized alterations. Landlord claimed that tenant demolished the apartment’...
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced a new program to replace as many as 200,000 inefficient toilets in up to 10,000 buildings citywide. The first phase of the program will target between 7,000 and 10,000 owners who participate in DEP’s Multifamily...
Over the past four months Manhattan market rental prices have continued to increase, reaching the highest peaks in more than five years, according to a recent Douglas Elliman report analyzing the rental market in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens for June 2014. The market has tightened as a result...
Primary Residence: Tenant Must Submit to Independent Medical Exam
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant based on nonprimary residence. Landlord claimed that tenant lived in New Jersey and sublet the apartment without landlord’s permission. Tenant claimed that he was away...
New York City’s Fire Department has started responding to all reports of gas odors that the city receives. This is a change in policy put into effect in the wake of the March 12 explosion in East Harlem that leveled two apartment buildings, killing eight people and injuring at least 70...
The NYU Furman Center recently released a fact brief that details characteristics about the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the tenants who live in stabilized housing. The brief, Profile of Rent Stabilized Units and Tenants in New York City, is an update to a 2012 Furman Center...
An owner is filing to evict a rent-stabilized tenant for beginning to rent out her fourth-floor walkup in Tribeca in September 2012. For nine months, the owner claims she rented the apartment, charging $250 per night, $1,750 per week, or $4,500 per month for a space that she rents for $1,463.79...
Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to terminate one rent-stabilized and four rent-controlled tenancies in order to demolish the building tenants lived in. Landlord claimed that the apartments were uninhabitable, that a new...
New York City's Rent Guidelines Board has voted to raise rent on nearly a million regulated apartments, bypassing the mayor's appeal for a one-year rent freeze. In a 5-4 vote, the board voted to implement an historically small increase: Rents for one-year lease renewals will be raised by...
Q How have the Rent Code Amendments of 2014 (RCA 2014) changed the process for deregulating rent-stabilized apartments through high-rent vacancy? Are there any additional forms to fill out?
On May 14, the New York City Council unanimously voted to expand a housing subsidy program that will now give a rent freeze to tens of thousands more seniors citywide.
As part of New York State’s 2014-2015 budget, the state legislature approved on March 31 a huge increase to the...
Airbnb has reached a deal with the New York attorney general in which the rental company will turn over anonymous records of Airbnb hosts for analysis. In the data handed over there will be no names, addresses, or personally identifiable information.
