BRONX, NY – Tenants of 215 East 164th Street in the South Bronx gathered outside their Rent Stabilized building complex this week to demand their landlord, David Eisenstein, fix hazardous building conditions they’ve been living with for years, including a rat infestation, unpatched holes in the wall, chronic leaks, damaged floors, and limited elevator use. Tenants sued their landlord years ago for many of the same issues, but poor-quality patchwork repairs and a general failure to perform adequate maintenance have forced tenants to file a new lawsuit against their landlord to demand that lasting repairs be made. 

NEW YORK, NY – On Wednesday, September 30, 2020, Judge Eric Komitee in the New York Eastern District Court dismissed landlord groups’ legal challenge to New York’s Rent Stabilization Laws in two cases, upholding the government’s power to regulate rents in New York.

NEW YORK, NY (July 28, 2020) – In a victory for tens of thousands of app-based drivers across the state of New York who have been paid a lower unemployment benefit rate for months, a federal judge today granted a preliminary injunction ordering the New York Department of Labor to immediately pay Uber, Lyft, and app-based drivers the full amount owed to them and to notify all claimants of their right to request a review of their benefit rates. 

NEW YORK, NY (July 16, 2020) – Today, Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Paul, Weiss) announce the Court-approved settlement of an anti-discrimination lawsuit against NYCHA that will reform the public housing agency’s reasonable accommodation and transfer systems to mitigate systemic delays and ensure that thousands of NYCHA tenants with mobility impairments will receive the accommodations that they need to live with dignity and respect.