The Nation's Largest Tenants Association
We are a 100% volunteer-run organization, with a dedicated Board of Directors and a statewide footprint, and we take pride in being the strongest and best-organized tenants association in New York City.
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P.O. Box 1202, New York, NY 10009-1202
TA drop boxes: at the Community Center and Zeichner's Wines & Liquor
Resources
MCIs | Service Complaints | Lease Renewal | Succession Rights
Elected Officials | Helpful Links | Tenants' Rights Updated (NYS Attorney General) | Rent Laws Expire 2019
LEASE RENEWAL INCREASES (NYC Rent Guidelines Board) UPDATED
Leases starting or renewing on October 1, 2021, through September 30, 2022
1-year lease: 0% for the first six months and 1.5% for the remaining six months of the lease
2-year lease: 2.5%
Leases starting or renewing on October 1, 2020, through September 30, 2021
1-year lease: 0% | 2-year lease: 0% for the first year, 1% for the second year
NYC ELECTIONS 2021
Ranked choice voting 2021
Our mayoral forum of 5/1/21 (YouTube)
Acts of hate are never acceptable: we issued this statement in July 2020. Now, sadly, in March 2021 we find it necessary to repeat what shouldn’t have to be said even once: all acts of hate are unacceptable—inside and outside our community.
COMBINED HEAT AND POWER (CHP) PLANTS IN STUYVESANT TOWN
- Summary of issues and objections
- Electeds' letter to Rick Hayduk (10/9/20)
- TA PowerPoint presentation to Community Board 6 (1/5/21)
- Video of community board presentation (1/5/21)
- Electeds' letter to Dept. of Buildings (1/19/21)
- Electeds meet with NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation (2/11/21)
- Dept. of Buildings commissioner's response to electeds' letter (4/20/21)
- Electeds' letter to commissioner of NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation (4/30/21)
- Electeds' second letter to Dept. of Buildings (6/16/21)
SUMMARY OF STATE HOUSING LAW: Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019
Updated rent regulation fact sheets (DHCR)
Landlord challenge to rent stabilization law: amicus brief in support of defendants
Tenants' Rights (NYS Attorney General)
News Releases: Assembly Passes Historic Affordable Housing Protections (June 14, 2019); Senate Majority Passes Strongest Tenant Protections in State History (June 14, 2019)
Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants
TA LAWSUIT TO KEEP ALL STPCV APARTMENTS RENT STABILIZED: NY State Supreme Court Filing for Declaratory Judgment (March 2020)
FAQ: Court filing for Roberts tenants and rent stabilization
Press conference 3/5/20: Prepared statements of Susan Steinberg and Steven Newmark and press release
Judge offers recusal; delay in TA lawsuit to keep all apartments protected by rent stabilization (3/26/21)
Second judge recuses himself; new judge assigned to our case (7/21/21)
FUTURE MCI COSTS: how high can they go? DHCR hearing of Sept. 9, 2020 (including testimony & letters)
Transcript of the hearing (contains many errors)
DHCR's response: it's not friendly to tenants' pocketbooks
TA lawsuit challenges costs for MCI rent increases
Bulletin: August 2018
Bulletin: May 2017
Bulletin: July 2016
East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR)—plan to protect us from the next superstorm (March 26, 2019, presentation to CB6 Land Use Committee 4/22/19).
Presentation of May 28, 2019.
Public Design Commission final review, December 16, 2019.
Presentation of November 23, 2020.
Construction update of March 31, 2021.
Con Ed Manufactured Gas Plants Sites FAQ
Letter to DHCR from State Senator Brad Hoylman and City Council Member Keith Powers
Five Stuy Cafe liquor license: Letter from Council Member Keith Powers to Community Board 6
Heat Season: Oct. 1–May 31. There is no outside temperature requirement at night.
Press Conference on Sale of ST-PCV to Blackstone
