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The bill that resulted from those talks would try to keep everyone honest It would allow tenants subjected to repeated and purposeful abuses-where owners have withheld heat and hot water, constandy failed to make repairs, or dumped garbage in the hallways-to cite landlords for harassment For the first time, harassment would be covered under the city's housing-maintenance code, with violators subject to stiff fines and other penalties. Introduced in October by Quinn and Manhattan council members Daniel Garodnick, who fought to keep apartments at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village affordable, and Melissa Mark-Viverito, whose East Harlem district is rapidly becoming a real estate hunting ground, Intro No. 627 is headed for hearings later this month before the council's housing and buildings committee. The goal here is to snuff this new tenants'-rights legislation in its cradle by generating much heat and little light about its potential impact "We just don't want to open a Pandora's box," said Joel Rivera, the 28-year-old council majority leader, whose father is Bronx Democratic Party boss and State Assemblyman Jose Rivera.
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Slumming for Landlords
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When it comes to lopsided ba'ttles, it's hard to top the steady war that's long raged between New York's landlords and their tenants.Any given weekday, just poke your head into a hearing room in the city's housing courts. There, row upon row of despairing tenants grimly clutch legal papers that dema...See the full content of this document
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