Tenants of Riverview II, a former Mitchell-Lama housing project in Yonkers, are again asking the Public Service Commission to halt submetering. Faced with new bills for electricity not offset by […]
On August 18, 2008 the Ontario Electricity Board issued a Decision and Order on submetering that involves many of the same issues faced by New York tenants due to the […]
At its September 17, 2009 session the PSC decided to grant rehearing of prior submetering orders, and halted implementation of electric submetering at four New York City buildings with a […]
A myth fostered by property owners and electric submetering proponents is that because New York tenants in rent stabilized apartments will receive an offsetting reduction in rent (due to the […]
Tenants at Town House West in Manhattan won a three-month reprieve from submetering charges after they filed a Petition with the Public Service Commission seeking to halt the implementation of […]
Elected officials recently wrote to PSC Chairman Garry A. Brown and NYSERDA President Francis Murray to express their concerns over submetering, referencing several cases in which submetering at former Mitchell-Lama […]
The Hazel Towers Tenants Association filed a Petition in May, 2009 with the PSC seeking to halt submetering at Hazel Towers, after their complaint filed with the PSC’s Office of […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]