NEW YORK, NY (November 18) – Today, more than 40 tenants of Normandie Court buildings (205, 215, 225, and 235 East 95th Street) filed a lawsuit against MF Associates of New York LLC and Yorkville Plaza Associates LLC, — shell companies owned by Milstein Properties—to fight their attempts to deregulate their units, raise rents, and push tenants out.

NEW YORK, NY (November 18) – Late yesterday, 68 New York-based corporations and law firms sent a letter urging the New York State’s Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), the state agency that administers New York’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP), to fully re-open the ERAP application portal for all low-income tenants living in New York.

NEW YORK, NY (November 10) – Today, Legal Services NYC announces a new lawsuit filed on behalf of eight tenants against Chestnut Holdings of New York, Inc. and its brokers alleging discrimination on the basis of the tenants’ source of income.

Brooklyn, New York (October 29, 2021) – Tenants at 1646 Union Street in Crown Heights and their neighbors held a press conference last night to call out their landlord, Renaissance Realty Group, for their second attempt to destabilize units in their building and push tenants out, this time using loopholes from expired affordable housing regulatory agreements it says make the building exempt from rent stabilization.