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Q: I live in a rental building in Harlem and have always worked from home. Since the start of the pandemic, the family directly above me…
Q. My fiance and I were set to close on a one-bedroom co-op in Jackson Heights, Queens. Both parties had signed the contract. We had…
Q. My husband and I have lived in a rent-stabilized apartment for six years. Every year we sign a lead paint disclosure form stating that…
Q. For 12 years, I’ve lived in the same apartment in a brownstone. In the last year, it seems like my elderly landlord has developed…
Q. My husband and I bought a single room occupancy building with plans to convert it to a two-family home. After about a year of…
Q. My husband and I have a month-to-month market-rate lease for an apartment on the second floor of a four-story walk-up; a nail salon on the…
If you live in NYC you may have noticed the dog walkers on the Upper East Side, the Village and even in Midtown. You know,…
Q. I am a market-rate tenant living in a converted office building. Instead of a central heating system, the building has HVAC units in each apartment…
Tell us a little about your firm and the areas of law you practice. David A. Kaminsky, Esq. has been in private practice since 1985.…
Q. My family has been living in a rent controlled apartment since around 1968. My grandmother, who passed away, was the original tenant. Now my…
A lease is a binding contract. If either party of a lease violates the lease, they become subject to varying penalties under law. There are…
Landlord-tenant laws in New York City are complicated. If your landlord is selling your property or apartment building, you could be forced to move. Read…
Q. At some point my roommate, who is on our apartment lease, intends to move out. When she does, I will have to replace her. Is…
Q. Is a property owner required to hire a superintendent for a New York City residential building, or can a maintenance company serve the same function?…
As a result of Hurricane Sandy, many apartment buildings in New York City are now uninhabitable due to flooding, power outages, and physical damage. Many…
After 28 years of experience as a real estate attorney I have seen all shapes and sizes of residential leases. The problems landlords and tenants…
The housing market in New York City is forever evolving. The traditional rental market is tight and many New Yorkers are now renting a coop…
Q. A member of my family is trying to rent an apartment, but nobody will rent to him because of his low credit rating. Is it…
Q. I rented a nonstabilized apartment in a condominium in Brooklyn. One of the selling points was the kitchen with stainless steel appliances. After about a…
Q. Can a person renting in a rent-regulated apartment in Brooklyn sublet the apartment or otherwise get out of the lease? A. A rent-regulated tenant usually…
Q. I am a 70-year-old rent controlled tenant in a co-op building where I have lived for 42 years. My apartment is owned by a shareholder.…
Q. I rent a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan. The building used to be all rent-stabilized, but then some of the apartments, including mine, became market rate…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Q. When a tenant living in a rent-stabilized apartment rents a parking space in the building’s garage, is the garage rent subject to stabilization too? …
Q. My partner and I live on the 12th floor of a condominium on West 57th Street. Many of our apartment windows face Seventh Avenue. Directly…
Q. Can we the tenants estimate the interest amounts due us and subtract it from the rent or use it towards the increase in the security…