The Worsties are here! See if your landlord made the annual Worst Landlords in NYC list
Landlords occupy a rarefied position in American society, alongside lawyers, street canvassers and lousy journalists, in that the public always…
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Are real estate developers the ‘Trump fans’ of Brooklyn?
WNYC's new podcast about Brooklyn gentrification is only two episodes in but here's a trend you can expect to continue for…
10 ways your landlord might try to screw you, and what to do about it
The battle between New York City tenant and landlord is as old as time and as epic as the great…
The Brooklyn Borough President wants to hear your worst landlord stories
Landlords! Unless you're very fortunate, you've got one, and maybe you've even had more than one. Some may have been…
Racist landlord casually explains racist methods
When explaining how they're planning on jacking up rents and running longtime residents of a building or neighborhood out of…
City Council members try to kill off ‘tenant blacklist’
Remember the "tenant blacklist," the list that companies made using publicly available information on tenants who went to Housing Court,…
The low-cost lawyer who’ll get your security deposit back
Unless you 'move' like Jagger (i.e. hire movers, do a few lines of coke and take a limo to your…
Landlords have a tenant ‘blacklist’ they source from NYC Housing Court
Got a dispute with your landlord? Is it so bad you're thinking of going to Housing Court? Well, we'd wear…
Turns out your landlord might be miserable, broke as hell too
When it comes to most despised persons in New York, the landlord, or at least the generic idea of "the…
Get a free crash course in your housing rights this weekend at the Silent Barn
You've got a lot in life to worry about, between work, relationships and the knowledge that one day the sun…