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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

Public Member Pledge Form: authorize the TA's attorney to represent you in complex-wide claims and concerns.

LEASE RENEWAL INCREASES (NYC Rent Guidelines Board)
Leases starting or renewing on October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023
1-year lease: 3.25%
2-year lease: 5%
OUCH! These are the highest increases in years

TA statement on the 2022–2023 rent increases

RENT GUIDELINES BOARD 2022–2023
Invited testimony of Tim Collins 4/26/22

UPDATE: WE WON!
On January 4, 2023, Justice Robert Reed handed down a decision in our favor.

TA LAWSUIT TO KEEP ALL STPCV APARTMENTS RENT STABILIZED: NY State Supreme Court Filing for Declaratory Judgment (March 2020)

On June 16, 2022, TA attorney Tim Collins argued in State Supreme Court that all our apartments must remain protected by rent stabilization under the 2019 state housing law (HSTPA). Blackstone’s position is that they should be allowed to turn more than 4,000 apartments here—those with the highest rents—into free-market units. Presenting arguments supporting us was the Deputy Solicitor General of the Office of the New York State Attorney General.

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)

Lottery Agreement/Regulatory Agreement between Blackstone and NYC

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

MAY 2021: TA LAWSUIT CHALLENGES COSTS FOR MCI RENT INCREASES; all NYS rent-regulated tenants affected
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
DHCR releases even higher costs: Update to Operational Bulletin 2021-1

COMBINED HEAT AND POWER (CHP) FOSSIL FUEL PLANTS IN STUYVESANT TOWN

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.

Bulletin: August 2018
Bulletin: May 2017
Bulletin: July 2016

Note: some information may be out of date.

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.