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Lead StoryRent Stabilization
Most apartments that stopped being rent-stabilized left for a boring, lawful reason: a tax break expired. Which is why nobody notices the other kind — buildings where tenants say apartments were deregulated when they shouldn't have been, one or two a year, for a decade.
Tenant Rights
A New York renter posted a TikTok in 2024 about getting $6,000 back from her landlord. It went viral because almost nobody knew you could do what she did. Here's what happened — and what it means for the million New Yorkers in rent-stabilized apartments.
Tenant Rights
NYC's Rental Ripoff Hearings just wrapped. Tenants showed up in five boroughs with stories of chatbot supers, three-year leaks, and profiteer landlords. Here's what city inspection records show — and how to find yours.
Tenant Rights
All five Rental Ripoff hearings have wrapped, but written testimony is still open until the policy report drops in early July. Here's how to show up with the receipts.
Tenant Rights
I've rented five apartments in this city and only found out one of them was stabilized after I moved out. Nobody tells you. Here are the seven checks I run now, in the order I run them.
Worst Landlords
Pinnacle Group defaulted on its loans and declared bankruptcy after amassing 5,000+ housing code violations. The buildings sold for $451 million — to a buyer with family ties to Pinnacle's CEO.
Lines pulled straight from NYC housing files. Nothing embellished.