Discovery has begun in landlords’ lawsuit against New York, trying to show the city’s rental board engaged in a sham process.  That suit, filed after the city’s Rent Guidelines Board approved a rent freeze for one- and two-year leases for rent-stabilized units, has now revealed text messages and emails between members of that board and the Mamdani administration.  Mayor Zohran Mamdani campaigned on a rent freeze in rent-stabilized apartments. Rent levels for those apartments are controlled by the board, which approved a freeze in June. Landlords are hoping to persuade a judge that the board’s vote for a freeze was […]

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