For whatever reason, the Mamdani administration chose Super Bowl Sunday — four hours before kickoff — to release an updated list of buildings in the dreaded Alternative Enforcement Program. The mayor’s office didn’t bury the news in order to spare landlords bad publicity. Just two days later it made a big show of announcing its “rental ripoff” hearings, which have outraged and scared owners even before the first hearing. In his press release about the updated AEP list, Mayor Zohran Mamdani vowed, “New York will no longer look the other way while bad landlords put tenants at risk.” But AEP […]

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