Nearly 70 tenants—many of whom live in Sunnyside and Woodside buildings–are part of a class action law suit that alleges that their management company has been illegally jacking up their rent by falsely inflating the cost of apartment improvements across its entire portfolio of properties.
The lawsuit, which has 67 plaintiffs, was filed Tuesday against Forest Hills-based Bronstein Properties, one of the largest residential landlords in New York City. The suit was filed in the New York Supreme Court on behalf of the named plaintiffs as well as all of Bronstein’s tenants who paid inflated rent between July 25, 2013 and today.
Many of the named plaintiffs are tenants from as many as seven Sunnyside and Woodside buildings.
The suit claims that Bronstein and its owner Barry Rudofsky have been in violation of New York City’s Rent Stabilization laws, which has led to unfair rent hikes.
Under the law, landlords are able to increase rent on rent stabilized apartments based on annual increases set by the Rent Guidelines Board, as well if there are major capital improvements to the buildings, such as elevators, new roofs or new windows, or if there is a vacancy or renovations to individual apartments.
The plaintiffs claim that many of the renovations to individual apartments were not done and the rents were increased illegally.
4 comments:
what did they expect this is NYC, how of the shyster Land lords and shadiest of shady real estate industry
So the plan is to raise rents because of things they should be doing in their buildings in the first place, like renovations and upgrades that will make their buildings more safe and secure to live in. Well, improvements for the suckers with disposable income who they want to replace their current tenants with.
These scumlords are looking at all that tower pestilence by the railyards at queens plaza and cumming all over themselves.
How is it Russians are buying up these buildings and why so many register in Forest Hills
>So the plan is to raise rents because of things they should be doing in their buildings in the first place, like renovations and upgrades that will make their buildings more safe and secure to live in. Well, improvements for the suckers with disposable income who they want to replace their current tenants with.
THIS
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