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The DOB recently implemented its “Stay Safe. Stay Put” campaign to remind New Yorkers that if one becomes stuck in an elevator, the safest place to be is inside the car. According to the DOB, elevators are among the very safest forms of transportation, but New Yorkers have been seriously injured trying to escape stalled elevators. “New York’s elevators make billions of safe trips a year, so they’re one of ...
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman recently announced the unsealing of a 50-count indictment charging Matthew Pappalardo and his former employer, HiRise Engineering, P.C., with allegedly altering engineering reports prepared in connection with the assessment of structural damage of residential properties resulting from Superstorm Sandy.
At a recent news conference with city officials, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, detailed an indictment charging a building owner, his manager, and a contractor with reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child, and other offenses.
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development recently issued a reminder that property owners and managing agents of multifamily residential buildings and certain one- and two-family homes are obligated to annually register their properties with HPD. City agencies rely on the contact information supplied in the registration for all official notifications, including notices of violation, as well as emergency notic...
Forty-one out of fifty-one New York City council members have signed on as co-sponsors of a bill that would require photoelectric smoke detectors in residential buildings. Fire safety experts have debated for years the merits of the cheaper and more popular ionization detectors versus the more expensive photoelectric type. According to experts, ionization detectors are better at sensing flaming fires, while photoelectric detectors are ...
If your residential building has small commercial tenants, you’ll need to heed a new law recently signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio. The law is designed to shield commercial tenants from landlord harassment.
A Manhattan Supreme Court Justice recently granted a temporary restraining order in response to a lawsuit submitted by the Rent Stabilization Association.
The City Council recently released a report entitled, “Landmarks for the Future,” with several new proposals to alter the way the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) works. The city council made similar proposals last year. This year, the council once again proposed a series of recommendations for the LPC including imposing time limits on designating items.
On June 8, the full City Council voted 38-10 in f...
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman recently announced that a landlord and developer of an Upper West Side building will pay the city a $500,000 settlement for illegally buying two elderly, rent-controlled tenants out of their units, and later trying to conceal the fraudulent transaction. The developer, who began converting apartments in the building into condominiums in May 2012, bought the units from them for $200,000 and $155,000 res...
On May 3, the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) voted on preliminary increases for next year for the city’s rent-stabilized apartments. The nine-member board voted 5-4 in favor of increases of 0 percent to 2 percent on one-year leases and 0.5 percent to 3.5 percent on two-year leases signed between Oct. 1, 2016, and Sept. 30, 2017.
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