New York City Landlords Sue Over Tenant Protections

[hrmjustin]

JOSH BARBANEL

City landlords are fighting back against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's marquee tenant-rights initiative—the state's Tenant Protection Unit—along with a set of new rent regulations that favors renters.

In a lawsuit filed Monday in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn, two building owners and three landlord groups asked the court to declare many of the new regulations and the actions of the tenant unit "invalid and unenforceable."

The suit argues the tenant protection unit and other recent regulatory changes "violate well developed state law" and together "represent an agency's dramatic intrusion into the legislative and judicial areas, usurping powers specifically enumerated to the legislative and judiciary branches of government."

Mr. Cuomo set up the unit in 2012 to investigate what he said was landlord fraud. The Legislature had twice declined to provide funding for it.

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[NYC_SKP]

1. I was the super for one of the Village Voice's "Ten Worst Landlords".

I think they've quit doing their annual 10 worst, but here's a link to one year: http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-03-16/news/new-york-s-ten-worst-landlords/

I was asked to do illegal things, my first job was cleaning up blood in the hallway that was left by a beating of a rent-striking tenant by the previous super.

Buy, hey, I was a student and the rent was free!

Nice apartment, free rent, I lasted exactly one year and then moved to a $290/month dump on the lower east side. But I liked it there more!

Weird times.

[hrmjustin]

2. Well now the village has rents of 3 to 6 thousand dollars.

[sabbat hunter]

3. I am not sure why

cleaning up blood would be illegal.

Did the landlord tell you to not to fix items that were broken, break things to try and drive tenants out?

I would think that the worst landlords would not even bother having an onsite super. I mean that is money out of their pockets (for either a salary or free rent )