Sun Editorials on Rent Control

Rangel's Rent
July 11, 2008

It turns out that the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Charles Rangel, has been enjoying the use of four rent-stabilized apartments.

Paterson's Rent
May 19, 2008

So Governor Paterson reckons that his $1,250 a month rent-stabilized two-bedroom Manhattan apartment is "within the spirit of the law." Curious about this law's spirit, we went to read it.

Bianca Jagger's Rent
October 23, 2007

Cheers are in order for the three judges on the appellate division — George Marlow, Joseph Sullivan, and James McGuire — who ruled recently that Bianca Jagger, the ex-wife of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, was not entitled to a rent-stabilized apartment on Park Avenue.

Cyndi Lauper's Rent
July 8, 2005

Cyndi Lauper, 1980s pop-music icon, and her husband, the actor David Thornton, will enjoy their West End Avenue apartment at the cut-rate, rent-stabilized price of $989 per month, even though the state Court of Appeals last week rebuffed the couple's attempt to slash that figure even more.

Boomerang
December 5, 2005

The Sun's David Lombino reports this morning that rent stabilization might just be stabilizing the market for second homes in Florida, Connecticut, and upstate New York. Well-off New Yorkers are using the five-figure windfall of rent stabilization to buy second homes.