NY Dirt: Mamdani begins Rental Ripoff rollout, starting small
Mayor Zohran Mamdani promised to heed tenants’ calls for reform at Rental Ripoff Hearings, but upping enforcement on landlords to “fix the city” is easier said than done. The Mamdani administration debuted his Rental Ripoff Report Thursday, compiling tenants’ most frequent complaints about their liv
“Less than a Telluride”: Jay Martin dares tenants to buy Harlem building
When a rental building in West Harlem was listed for $1.375 million, Jay Martin flagged it. “Less than the price of a Kia Telluride,” he tweeted. “$57,000 per unit.” Martin wasn’t marketing the property. The New York Apartment Association exec was noting the devaluation of rent-stabilized buildings
Mamdani’s new “bad landlord” strategy
Are you a high-road landlord or a low-road landlord? That’s the question owners are being faced with after Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s much-anticipated “rental ripoff” report came out this week. It’s a small but important nomenclature change. Instead of ripping into a vague, undefined group of “negligent
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