This is such a mess, as per the Daily News’s Erin Durkin:<\/p>\n
Many Stuyvesant Town tenants are getting hit with big rent increases in the middle of their leases, the Daily News has learned.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Shell-shocked tenants will have to pay as much as $1,100 more perm month \u2014 with as little as two weeks notice.<\/em><\/p>\n Now why do I think this will be another Stuyvesant Town lawsuit, on top of:<\/p>\n The tenants initially scored a legal coup in 2009 when the state’s highest court upheld a tenants lawsuit charging that thousands of apartments had been illegally removed from rent stabilization protections. A temporary agreement at the time forced then-owner Tishman Speyer to slash rents.<\/em><\/p>\n Personally, I wouldn’t want to enrage a huge number of lawsuit-experienced rent stabilized tenants, one of whom is City Councilman Daniel Garodnick \u2014 but hey, I’m not a wealthy bond holder.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is such a mess, as per the Daily News’s Erin Durkin: Many Stuyvesant Town tenants are getting hit with big rent increases in the middle of their leases, the Daily News has learned. Shell-shocked tenants will have to pay … Continue reading