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A new Brown Harris Stevens Development Marketing report found that 17 percent of 301 rental buildings in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens were offering three months free and an owner-paid broker fee.

The law protects your right to participate in a tenant organization without retaliation. Under the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act, passed in 2019, if a landlord attempts to evict you within a year of you forming a tenant association, it’s presumed retaliatory, and the landlord must provide a credible explanation otherwise.

In a new study of the top 100 most expensive zip codes in the U.S. for residential real estate, RealtyHop found that New York has three of the 10 priciest zip codes.

The board has statutory obligations not only from the warranty of habitability but also under the state’s Multiple Dwelling Law and the city’s Housing Maintenance Code to keep the building in good repair. 

Using data on one-bedroom median net effective rent prices in each NYC neighborhood, the findings showed that on average rents dropped 6.25 percent. However, some areas were harder hit than others and some neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens even saw rents increases. 

This year’s Open House New York Weekend, the annual event that lets you inside special NYC buildings and destinations—including some that are typically off-limits—will look a little different. That’s because some of the sites, such as the city’s top new residential development projects, are participating virtually with live or on demand broadcasts.