Landlords sue New York over rent-stabilization rules for vacant apartments  

November 14, 2025 / no comments

After several lawsuits tried and failed to overturn New York’s rent-stabilization law, a new complaint is taking a different approach.  The lawsuit, filed by the Small Property Owners of New York and a few individual landlords, takes aim at how the state law applies to vacant apartments. The complaint alleges that capping rents on vacant units violates the takings clause in the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution because it “directly takes from the value of the apartment’s leasehold.”  That, the lawsuit alleges, results “either in a complete taking (by making it economically impossible to rent the leasehold) or a […]

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Mamdani admits housing defeat at Elizabeth Street Gardens

November 14, 2025 / no comments

Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams appears to have weeded out any plan for incoming mayor Zohran Mamdani to replace the Elizabeth Street Garden with housing. The mayor-elect said on Thursday, “the actions that the Adams administration has taken now make it nearly impossible to follow through” with plans to build affordable housing at the oft-contested Nolita site, Crain’s reported. The mention of “nearly impossible” suggests Mamdani may still find a way to get a housing project done there. But Adams made that significantly more challenging last week when he designated the site as parkland and transferred ownership of the lot to […]

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