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Q.  Does the son of rent-stabilized tenants have the right to continue to live in the apartment and get a new lease in his own name Read More »

Q.  I recently moved out of an apartment I had lived in for over 20 years. Because I had replaced my refrigerator, air-conditioner and stove, I Read More »

Q.   My rent-stabilized building was bought by a church. Do stabilization laws still apply? A.   “The writer’s rent-stabilization rights continue even though the property was Read More »

Q.  My 75-unit Manhattan co-op recently adopted an amendment to our proprietary lease banning smoking throughout the building. The change required approval of owners holding two-thirds Read More »

Woman with sick child says cigarette smoke comes through vents Christie Ewen’s neighbor is a smoker whose secondhand smoke comes through the vents and she’s Read More »

Q.  I am a college student in upstate New York, and I am renting a house with seven others. The landlord sends in maintenance workers without Read More »

Q.  I recently purchased a co-op apartment. In both the broker’s listing materials and the sale contract, the maintenance fee was misstated by nearly $100. The Read More »

In the past, tenants who were facing eviction would file for bankruptcy as a last resort, buying time to either work things out with the Read More »

Q.  The basement of our prewar co-op is undergoing renovation to enlarge the laundry room and storage space. In the process, the building has become riddled Read More »

Lawsuit by brother of Huntington caterer’s owner lays claim to stake in the establishment, possibly forestalling its purchase by Lowe’s. The way Howard Silver views Read More »

Subway’s bread may be fresh but it stinks to high heaven, residents of an Upper East Side condo claim. The condo has filed a $500,000 Read More »

A condominium board on the Upper East Side is asking a judge to stop a newly opened Subway restaurant from baking fresh bread, claiming the Read More »