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By: Curbed
31Aug2010There are often rumors of landlords cracking down on rent-stabilized tenants who may not be occupying their apartments legally, but rarely do we find out just what "cracking down" means. Apparently, it means hiring private investigators to...
By: Curbed
31Aug2010Like many big landlords with credit to burn during the real estate boom, the Pinnacle Group and Praedium Group teamed up to buy a bunch of buildings filled with rent-stabilized tenants, the aim being to somehow convert those apartments to...
By: Curbed
6Aug2010With distressed (mostly rent-stabilized) buildings trading hands for cheap, the NYT looks at what one tenant activist calls the "second wave of predatory investors using vacancy decontrol to evict tenants and jack up rents at the expense of affo...
By: Curbed
5Aug2010The big, lingering question mark from the epic Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village rent-stabilization lawsuit is whether or not formerly market-rate tenants will get retroactive refunds on the rent overcharges they were paying to MetLife and later T...
By: Curbed
3Aug2010After years of court battles, press coverage, celebrity anger and verbal assaults from senior citizens, Carnegie Hall is finally getting its wish: Turning the live/work artist studios above the historic concert hall into new offices and classrooms. T...
By: Curbed
12Jul2010Former Red Sox and Mets slugger Mo Vaughn is expected to win today's auction of 14 rent-stabilized Bronx apartment buildings that were purchased at the height of the real estate boom, and later left to rot. The arrangement has been...
By: Curbed
30Jun2010While attending the annual Rent Guidelines Board circus to give an eyewitness account, a Wall Street Journal relays the tale of the board's newest member: "He joined only this year, and described his experience thus far as 'bizarre,' adding that...
