In a brief Notice Establishing Universal Service Proceeding issued August 3, 2009, the New York PSC indicated that it will be reexamining its universal service policies for telecommunications. Long overdue, […]
The week of September 14th through September 20th will be “National Lifeline Awareness Week,” coordinated by the FCC Federal/State Working Group on Lifeline and Link-Up (of which PULP is one […]
Tiffany Mews is a 70-unit converted factory building rented to low-income rent stabilized tenants in 1995, after a lengthy effort to convert it into condominiums failed. See Unexpected Arrivals Settle […]
The Universal Service Administrative Company (“USAC”) collects Universal Service Fund (USF) revenues from surcharges on customers’ phone bills. It then redistributes that money to local phone companies based on their […]
An interesting petition was recently filed with the PSC by a submetering company, Bay City Metering, apparently as an agent of a landlord, 430 Realty Company LLC, seeking to modify […]
We have previously chronicled the unresolved tenant complaints to the PSC Office of Consumer Services (OCS) regarding submetering of electricity at Hazel Towers in PSC Case Nos. 09-00841 and 00-E-1269. […]
The normalcy of the Senate confirmation process was jolted recently when the Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, Jay Rockefeller made some bold statements to open his Committee’s hearing on […]
Background – The Tenants’ April 20, 2009 Petition to the PSCOn April 20, 2009, the Parker Towers Tenants Association (PTTA) filed a Petition with the PSC seeking investigation of submetering […]
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 […]