New York’s rent freeze lawsuit has changed venues, but it hasn’t found a friendlier audience. Last week, the city’s Law Department won its effort to move the case from Staten Island to Manhattan. It was a matter of legal jurisdiction, but also likely one of strategy. In Staten Island, the city’s attorneys faced a conservative judge. Meanwhile, almost all justices elected in Manhattan are Democrats. The move stood to benefit the city, assuming a Democratic jurist might be more open to arguments from the Mamdani administration about why a rent freeze on rent-stabilized apartments was appropriate — not that the […]

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