Pressure To Vacate Their Landlord-Owned Homes Continues For Rent Regulated Apartment Dwellers In New York City

In New York City, DNAInfo New York reports (via The Real Deal (NYC)):

• The apartment down the hall from Joan Harden has granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, and marble finishes in the bathroom.
  
  Her kitchen, meanwhile, has mold instead of granite and, this summer, the bathrooms ceiling caved in because of a leak.
  
  Harden is one of many tenants of rent stabilized units at 75 Saint Nicholas Place who say their landlord is trying to push them out using unequal treatment and harassment because they pay $1,200 a month for rent compared to the $3,000 a month those in the renovated units pay.
  
  Harden declined a $5,000 offer to move out earlier this year, she said.(1)
  
  “[A property manager] came in to look at my kitchen and he said, ‘We’ll we need to do a lot of repairs, have you thought about moving out?’” said Harden. “That was like a slap to the face. I said, ‘No, if there are so many repairs that need to be done then fix them.’”

For more, see Rent Stabilized Harlem Tenants Say Landlord is Trying to Push Them Out.

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(1) It may be time for these tenants and others to get the help from lawyer David Rosenholc, the reputed king of tenants' attorneys in New York City. See Meet the lawyer who has become the most feared tenant attorney in New York. David Rozenholc is only getting started (Developer pays two tenants $25 million to vacate their apartments).