Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association

As you can imagine questions are pouring in.  We are in uncharted territory, and is going to take some time for the attorneys on both sides of this Landmark decision to sort things out.

Right now, Mr. Schmidt, your Tenants Association and the office of Dan Garodnick are working together to formulate a Frequently Asked Questions document to answer many of the questions you may have. This document will be posted on our website and distributed through our email list as soon as possible. (If you are not a member of the Tenants Association Opt-in e-mail list, you may join here.)

So please sit tight and give us TIME to create a quality and accurate communication on the next steps.

In the meantime, here is some immediate advice from the attorney for the case, Mr. Schmidt:

1. Do Not File a DHCR Rent Overcharge Application
   As Mr. Schmidt has advised in the past, tenants who file this document might be forfeiting their rights to be a member of the Class as well as other benefits

2. Market Rate Tenants Should Pay Their Rent in Full on November 1st
   Mr Schmidt advises MR tenants to pay their rent in full until the case has had a chance to work it's way through the initial judicial administrative process where these questions will be dealt with.

3. Please don't call our Message Center with J-51 questions, instead ...
   Our Message Center volunteers are not qualified to answer questions on the J-51 case. Instead, you may pose your questions by e-mail to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). This email address redirects to qualified attorneys at Wolf Haldenstein for answering and to members of the ST/PCV-TA Legal Committee for monitoring and tracking of the questions.  (Note, This address is different from the Tenants Association Opt-in list used to push information to residents.  You can join that list here.

If you do not have e-mail you may call Mr. Michael Liskow, Mr. Schmidt's associate at Wolf Haldenstein at (212) 545-4611. Please do try to use e-mail to limit the number of telephone calls Mr. Liskow will receive.

More Information Will Be Sent as it Becomes Available

We are also working on setting up a another Forum on J-51 and will have information for you soon on the where and when of this event.