Welcome to the informational website for the Weinreb Management LLC lawsuit.
If you are a current or former tenant, who occupied your apartment at any time after January 23, 2014, of the buildings located at 3660 Oxford Avenue, Bronx, NY 10463, OR 3950 Blackstone Avenue, Bronx, New York 10471 (the ”Buildings”), then you may be a member of a plaintiff class in a lawsuit against the owners of the aforementioned buildings, which is currently pending in the New York County Supreme Court.
Plaintiffs assert that the Defendants received J-51 tax benefits at the Buildings. Under New York State law, these benefits were only available if all the apartments at the Buildings were subject to the rent-stabilization laws. The Plaintiffs claim that the Defendants violated the law by treating the apartments at the Buildings as if they were not rent stabilized while they were receiving J-51 benefits. The Plaintiffs claim that, as a result, tenants at the Buildings were charged more than the maximum legal rent for their apartments and/or were denied the other benefits of rent stabilization, such as mandatory lease renewals at amounts allowed under New York State law.
The Plaintiffs seek to recover for rent overcharges from the Defendants for both themselves and the Class. They seek an order returning to rent-regulated status any Class Members’ apartments that were destabilized during the period in which the Defendants received J-51 tax benefits and that have not been returned to rent-stabilized status. Plaintiffs seek to have the Court determine the correct legally regulated rents for the apartments at the Buildings. The Plaintiffs also seek an order that any Class Member residing in an apartment at the Buildings be offered proper lease renewals at regulated rents as required by the rent-stabilization laws.
Plaintiffs are not seeking on behalf of themselves, or the members of the Class, the treble-damages penalty provided for in the rent-stabilization laws and regulations for willful rent overcharges. In seeking class certification, Plaintiffs have agreed to waive that penalty on behalf of themselves and the Class, seeking only injunctive relief and compensatory relief for the actual amounts of the overcharges, plus interest. If you are a Class Member and wish to pursue the statutory penalty, you may do so. But to ensure your ability to pursue treble damages, you must exclude yourself from the Class and commence your own action pursuant to the procedures described below. You should note that any claims that you may be able to pursue individually are governed by a statute of limitations.
The Defendants have denied the allegations made by Plaintiffs and have asserted affirmative defenses.
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