Latest retail rent control bill concerns market advocates
Commercial rent regulation is once again on the New York City Council docket and this time around, a leftward swing in city and state politics
Category : Lawsuits
Neighbors challenge Extell’s newest Upper West Side skyscraper
Neighbors and an Upper West Side preservation group have filed a zoning challenge against Extell Development’s residential tower at 36 West 66th Street. The protesters
Kushner Companies faces $210,000 in fines for withholding rent-regulated info
Kushner Companies faces up to $210,000 in fines for filing false documents with the New York City Department of Buildings about rent-regulated tenants. On Monday,
Trade unions call for Related boss Stephen Ross to resign NFL post
New York’s building trades unions are not taking a knee in their ongoing dispute with the Related Companies. Thousands of construction workers rallied against Stephen
Court shift gives landlords leg up in deregulation rent disputes
As rent deregulation disputes continue to pile up in state court, many of these cases are being bounced from Supreme Court to the state’s housing
AG creates $8 million restitution fund for former Croman tenants
Former tenants of jailed slumlord Steven Croman could be in for a share of an $8 million restitution fund just announced by New York Attorney
Renegade intern lands ATCO in hot water with data company
Months after commercial real estate data company Reis sued ATCO Properties & Management for stealing hundreds of reports from the company’s website without paying, a
50 landlords can’t collect rent because the law says so
Tenants of at least 50 buildings in the trendiest neighborhoods of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens have lived rent-free for years and their landlords can’t do
Trade Secrets Act invoked for first time in listing dispute
A dispute over Long Island City listings has been moved to federal court and for Compass, which stands accused of boosting data from a competing
Tenants win right to live rent-free in Downtown building
A federal judge has given a group of renegade Downtown tenants the green light to keep living rent-free. The 17 residents of 533 Greenwich Street,