Rats! Landlord Gets Tax Breaks, Bronx Tenants Get Squalor, Rent Hikes
In the depths of the crack era, 1111 Gerard Avenue was an oasis in the Bronx. “When I first…
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Vox Pop: Jerome Ave. Businesses Mull Uncertain Future
New York City is considering rezoning a 73-square-block area around Jerome Avenue in the Bronx in order to allow…
RGB to NYC Tenants: No Rent Freeze This Year
In a five to four vote on Monday, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board shot down the possibility…
Pattern of Forced Displacement Evident at Brooklyn RGB Hearing
On June 18, nearly an hour before the start of the New York City Rent Guidelines Board’s third public…
City Tenants and Officials Push Rent Freeze at Manhattan RGB Hearing
At 72 years old, Marietta Hawkes has been living in the East Side’s Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village for more…
2014: Year of the Rent Freeze?
Will the city’s Rent Guidelines Board freeze rents this year, as Mayor Bill de Blasio promised when he was…
Tenants Face Another Hefty Rent Hike
The city’s Rent Guidelines Board is likely to hit tenants with a fat rent increase this month. The board…
Renters in the Hands of a Corrupt Senate
If you rent an apartment in the state of New York, the political machinations going on in the state…
Sunset Park Tenants Launch Rent Strike
On the front stoop of a four-story brownstone in Brooklyn, three women sat and strategized. “We should have broken…
Soaring Rents Spark Calls to Expand Tenant Protection
Tenants in three Lower East Side buildings are facing a mass eviction — and they have almost no legal…