NY Dirt: Who’s who in the rent freeze lawsuit

The first rent freeze lawsuit is here.  A group of landlords filed a petition and complaint Thursday seeking to send the rent freeze decision back to New York’s Rent Guidelines Board for an increase. Here’s a closer look at some of the players in the case. Judge Ralph Porzio  Plaintiffs filed this case in state court in Staten Island. Ralph Porzio, the judge assigned to the case, is a Republican with a history of more conservative decisions.  In 2022, Porzio ruled that the city’s health commissioner was wrong to fire sanitation workers who failed to get the Covid-19 vaccine, calling […]

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