A Brooklyn landlord caught in a compliance crackdown by Lawyer Basic Letitia James opted to settle his case, agreeing to supply rent-stabilized leases to all tenants, repair hazardous situations and “guarantee a protected setting” at 1075 Dean Avenue.
The lawyer normal’s workplace had alleged that John Anderson did not register items within the constructing as rent-stabilized with New York State Properties and Neighborhood Renewal, tried unlawful evictions and harassed tenants. The case filed in opposition to Anderson in June additionally alleged that he lied in regards to the constructing’s rent-stabilized standing on a Division of Buildings software and despatched a good friend to impersonate him in a separate court docket continuing.
Anderson can also be listed because the proprietor of a three-family constructing at 514 Washington Avenue and a single-family constructing at 137 Midwood Avenue in Brooklyn, together with a one- to two-family constructing at 135-43 225th Avenue in Queens, in response to Division of Finance data.
The enforcement motion in opposition to Anderson was amongst greater than 50 letters despatched to New York Metropolis landlords as a part of the sweep concentrating on buildings discovered to be de facto rent-stabilized with out correct registration. The lawyer normal is searching for to implement a 1974 legislation categorizing buildings with 5 or fewer items constructed earlier than that yr as stabilized if the constructing was altered to have six or extra items.
“New York Metropolis’s hire stabilization legal guidelines are clear, and my workplace won’t hesitate to implement them,” Lawyer Basic James stated in a press release. “We created this compliance program to make sure that all New York Metropolis tenants are handled pretty and that each one landlords are following the legislation.”
Because the crackdown launched in Could 2025, this system has prevented 27 evictions and returned 131 items to hire stabilization, after 30 landlords licensed their compliance, in response to the A.G.’s workplace.
The lawyer normal additionally introduced an analogous de facto rent-stabilization motion in opposition to Brooklyn landlord Claudette Henry, alongside a spate of current enforcement efforts together with actions round housing discrimination and illegal evictions.
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