Tenants at 1600 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, known as Riverview, a 25-story building containing 383 apartment owned by Starrett Corporation, have asked the PSC to halt submetering. According to […]
Tenants at Town House West, a former Mitchell-Lama project in Manhattan, petitioned the New York Public Service Commission on July 15, 2009 to vacate or modify its prior order allowing […]
Resale of electricity to residential tenants is generally prohibited unless specifically allowed by an order of the PSC. PSC-approved and NYSERDA-subsidized submetering projects, which enable landlords to bill tenants separately […]
BackgroundIn a November 25, 2008 letter to Urban America, the owner of the 1,003 unit Eastwood apartment complex located on Roosevelt Island at 510-580 Main Street, Roosevelt, New York (Eastwood), […]
BackgroundPressure from tenants led the PSC in 1950 to ban residential submetering, see Resale of Power in City Is Curbed. It was reintroduced in 1978 for cooperatives and condominiums whose […]
Tenants at Hazel Towers, a former Mitchell-Lama housing project in the Bronx, petitioned the Public Service Commission to halt submetering previously authorized by a PSC Order that waives the general […]
The New York State Department of Housing and Community Renewal (“DHCR“) oversees rent regulated residential housing. When a rent-regulated landlord is allowed by the PSC to submeter electricity, and begins […]
On Saturday, May 16 tenant leaders, legislators, state agency representatives (from the PSC, DHCR, and NYSERDA) and PULP met for nearly five hours to discuss electricity submetering issues and problems. […]
A tenant has filed a petition with the New York PSC seeking to vacate the submetering order for Claremont Gardens, a former Mitchell-Lama housing project in Ossining, N.Y. In September […]
The Hazel Towers Tenants Association on May 6, 2009 requested the PSC to halt submetering at Hazel Towers, a former Mitchell Lama project in the Bronx. In 2000, the PSC […]