With less than two weeks left in office, Mayor Eric Adams made sure to stack the city’s rent board.  Adams announced the appointment of two new members: Lliam Finn, a senior financial advisor with Merrill Lynch, as a public representative; and Sagar Sharma, an attorney with Legal Services NYC’s housing unit, as a tenant representative.  He also reappointed landlord attorney Christina Smyth as an owner representative and Arpit Gupta as a public one. In a statement, Adams said the appointments “will serve as responsible stewards of our city’s housing stock, using facts and data to reach the right decision for […]

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