Available list* : 2022 NYC Rent Stabilized Buildings

• Rent Control
• Rent Stabilization
• Emergency Tenant Protection Act (ETPA)

Building Statuses
• Multiple Dwelling A
• Multiple Dwelling B
• Hotel
• Single Room Occupancy(SRO)
• Garden Apartment Complex
• Non-Evict Coop/Condo Plan
• Evict Coop/Condo Plan
• Coop/Condo Plan Filed
• J-51 Program
• Section 421-A Program
• Article 11
• Articles 14 & 15
• Section 608
• Not Indicated by Owner

Other Statuses (offsite)
• 421-G (expired June 30, 2006)

The buildings that are listed have filed records with the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR) at least one time from 1984 to the present year. Inclusion on this list is not determinative of the building's current status. This list may not include all buildings that have rent regulated tenants. A building may contain rent stabilized apartments, rent controlled apartments or a mix of rent stabilized and rent controlled apartments. If the owner of the building has filed an application for Maximum Base Rent increase within the last four years, rent controlled apartments may exist in the building and this is noted under the Building Status column as "Rent Controlled apts. may exist".

Rent Control:
The rent regulation program which generally applies to residential buildings constructed before February, 1947 in municipalities for which an end to the postwar rental housing emergency has not been declared. A total of 51 municipalities have rent control, including New York City, Albany, Buffalo and various cities, towns, and villages in Albany, Erie, Nassau, Rensselaer, Schenectady, and Westchester counties.

For an apartment to be under rent control, the tenant must generally have been living there continuously since before July 1, 1971. When a rent controlled apartment becomes vacant, it either becomes rent stabilized or is removed from regulation, generally becoming stabilized if the building has six or more units and if the community has adopted ETPA. Formerly controlled apartments may have been decontrolled on various other grounds.

Rent control limits the rent an owner may charge for an apartment and restricts the right of an owner to evict tenants. It also obligates the owner to provide essential services and equipment.

Outside New York City, DHCR determines maximum allowable rates of rent increases. Owners may apply for these increases every two years. Inside New York City, rent increases are governed by the MBR system.
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Rent Stabilization:
In New York City, rent stabilized apartments are generally those apartments in buildings of six or more units built between February 1, 1947 and January 1, 1974. Tenants in buildings built before February 1, 1947, who moved in after June 30, 1971, are also covered by rent stabilization. A third category of rent stabilized apartments covers buildings subject to regulation by virtue of various governmental supervision or tax benefit programs; in some cases, a building with as few as three units may be stabilized. Generally, these buildings are stabilized only while the tax benefits or governmental supervision continues.

Outside New York City, rent stabilization applies to non-rent controlled apartments in buildings of six or more units built before January 1, 1974 in the localities that adopted the Emergency Tenant Protection Act (ETPA) in Nassau, Westchester and Rockland counties. Some municipalities limit ETPA to buildings of a specific size but never less than six units.

As does rent control, stabilization provides other protections to tenants beside regulation of rental amounts. Tenants are entitled to receive required services, to have their leases renewed, and not to be evicted except on grounds allowed by law. Leases may be entered into and renewed for one or two year terms, at the tenant's choice.
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Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974 (ETPA); Chapter 576 Laws of 1974:
In Nassau, Rockland, and Westchester counties, rent stabilization applies to non-rent controlled apartments in buildings of six or more units built before January 1, 1974 in localities that have declared an emergency and adopted ETPA. In order for rents to be placed under regulation, there has to be a rental vacancy rate of less than 5% for all or any class or classes of rental housing accommodations. Some municipalities limit ETPA to buildings of a specific size, for instance, buildings with 20 or more units.

Certain types of housing accommodations are not included in the provisions of ETPA, for example: housing accommodations in buildings containing less than six dwelling units; rent controlled apartments; motor courts; tourist homes non-profit units; all governmentally supervised housing; and housing accommodations in buildings completed on, or after, January 1, 1974 unless they are receiving special consideration, such as tax abatements, for agreeing to ETPA.

Each municipality declaring an emergency and adopting local legislation pays the cost of administering ETPA (either in Nassau, Rockland, or Westchester County). In turn, each municipality can charge the owners of subject housing accommodations a fee (up to $10 per unit per year).

The county rent guidelines boards (one in Nassau, Rockland, and Westchester counties) set maximum allowable rates for rent increases in stabilized apartments once a year and effective for leases beginning on or after October 1st of each year.
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Multiple Dwelling A:
As defined under the Multiple Dwelling Law, a multiple dwelling building which is generally occupied as a permanent residence. The class includes such buildings as apartment houses, apartment hotels, maisonette apartments, and all other multiple dwellings except class B dwellings.
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Multiple Dwelling B:
A multiple dwelling which is occupied, as a rule, transiently, as the more or less temporary abode of individuals or families. This class includes such buildings as hotels, lodging houses, single room occupancies, boarding schools, furnished room houses, college and school dormitories.
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Hotel:
Under rent stabilization, a multiple dwelling which provides all of the following services included in the rent:

1. Maid service, consisting of general house-cleaning at a frequency of at least once a week;
2. Linen service, consisting of providing clean linens at a frequency of at least once a week;
3. Furniture and furnishings, including at a minimum a bed, lamp, storage facilities for clothing, chair and mirror in a bedroom; such furniture to be maintained by the hotel owner in reasonable condition; and
4. Lobby staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week by at least one employee.

Under rent control, any establishment which on March 1, 1950 was and still is commonly regarded as a hotel, and which customarily provides hotel services such as maid service, furnishing and laundering of linen, telephone and secretarial or desk use and upkeep of furniture and fixtures, and bellboy service; provided, however, that the term hotel shall not include any establishment which is commonly regarded in the city as a single room occupancy.
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Single-Room Occupancy Housing (SRO):
Residential properties in which some or all dwelling units do not contain bathroom or kitchen facilities.

Under rent control, the occupancy by one or two persons of a single room, or of two or more rooms which are joined together, separated from all other rooms within an apartment in a multiple dwelling, so that the occupant or occupants thereof reside separately and independently of the other occupant or occupants of the same apartment.
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Garden Apartment Complex:
Such complexes may consist of attached, detached, or semi-attached dwelling units, containing six or more housing accommodations having common facilities such as a sewer line, water main, or heating plant and operated as a unit under common ownership. They are subject to regulation even though Certificates of Occupancy were issued for portions of the complex as one or two family dwellings.
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Non-Evict Coop/Condo Plan:
A building that has become a cooperative or a condominium without the right to evict any non-purchasing tenants.
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Evict Coop/Condo Plan:
A building that has become a cooperative or a condominium with the right to evict non-purchasing tenants other than eligible senior citizens or eligible disabled tenants within a specified period of time.
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Coop/Condo Plan Filed:
A Coop/Condo conversion plan has been accepted for filing by the Attorney General's office.
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J-51 Program:
A program governed by Sections 11-243 and 11-244 of the New York City Administrative Code (formerly numbered J-51) under which, in order to encourage development and rehabilitation property tax abatements and exemptions are granted. In consideration of receiving these tax abatements and at least for the duration of the abatements, the owner of these buildings agrees to place under rent stabilization, those apartments which would not otherwise be subject to rent stabilization (e.g., those in buildings with fewer than 6 apartments or buildings constructed after 12/31/73).

This program provides real estate tax exemptions and abatements to existing residential buildings which are renovated or rehabilitated in ways which conform to the requirements of the statute. It also provides these benefits to residential buildings which were converted from commercial structures.
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Section 421-A Program:
Under this section of the Real Property Tax Law, new multiple dwellings in New York City receive, under certain conditions, property tax abatements. For the duration of the abatements, at least, the apartments are rent regulated. This program provides real estate tax exemptions and abatements to newly constructed units. More Information on NYC.gov
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Article 11:
Under this article of the Private Housing Finance Law, buildings are required to register their rent regulated apartments.
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Articles 14 & 15:
Under this article of the Private Housing Finance Law, buildings are required to register their rent regulated apartments.
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Section 608:
Under this section of the Private Housing Finance Law, buildings are required to register their rent regulated apartments.
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Not Indicated by Owner:
The statuses of the building are provided by the owner on the Building Summary registration form. "Not Indicated by Owner" will be displayed if the owner did not check off any building status information on the registration form.
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