Infamous landlord Steve Croman, who spent eight months in Rikers Island for grand larceny, among other charges, is the center of a lawsuit that was just granted class action status, the New York Daily News first reported. The complaint, filed by law firm Newman Ferrara and the Housing Rights Initiative (HRI), alleges that Croman illegally leased rent-stabilized apartments in a Harlem building …
The Rent Is Too Damn High . Any discussion about the Airbnb/New York City/Andrew Cuomo cage match has to start there. Airbnb thrives in the New York City market because it’s too expensive for people to stay here.
This place is a dump! That’s what California lawyer Christian Pugaczewski says about the “fashionable” apartment he thought he was renting on Roosevelt Island this summer from a Victoria’s Secret model. In papers filed Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, Pugaczewski said the apartment offered on Airbnb was so dreadful that he fled immediately to a relative’s couch in the suburbs before finding …
More than three dozen New York officials stepped into a high-profile court battle over rent stabilization yesterday, filing a brief on behalf of tenants who have sued their Lower Manhattan landlord, claiming they were denied rent caps that should have been guaranteed under a state tax program. The fight between residents of 90 West Street and developer Kibel Companies, which ProPublica first …
Talk about partying like it is 1999. Kirill Nikonov and Kaimi Huang have stumbled across what could be a very sweet deal: a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan for just $199.15 a month. But, like so many things, it’s likely too good to be true.