The order requires Mayor de Blasio, the city council and
a tenant leader group to pick a monitor by June 2, but so far de Blasio has expressed reservations about the order and 45 days in no potential candidates have emerged.
Not exact matches
TORONTO, September 3, 2015 — MaRS Discovery District today announced new
tenants in its West Tower, including cutting - edge research
groups with a focus on precision medicine and rapidly growing ventures such as Synaptive Medical, a
leader in neuro - imaging, and LEAGUE, a new personal health platform.
A bevy of NYC elected
leaders joined
tenant groups outside City Hall to demand the state government bolster protections for
tenants of more than one million apartments across the five boroughs.
Squadron, who represents, the Lower East Side, and Wright were joined by members of the
tenant association, community
leaders, representatives of the International Union of Elevator Constructors Local 1 and other labor
groups.
In fact, even after Silver and Skelos were indicted and their relationships with Litwin's Glenwood Corp. revealed, Cuomo and new legislative
leaders delivered a blow to
tenant groups by enacting what many see as a real - estate - friendly renewal of the rent laws, deflecting pressure from advocates and Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Tenant groups say they were shut out — jousting with then - state senate majority
leader Pedro Espada, he threw crumbled dollars their way.
A former
tenant organizer and director of a gay and lesbian advocacy
group, Quinn, 46, has been on the City Council since 1999 and its
leader since 2006.
According to a press release his office sent out on Friday: «New York City
tenants, housing advocates and clergy and community
leaders [will be]... chanting slogans, waving placards and criticizing so - called advocacy
groups as being out of touch with the needs of
tenants in poor and middle class neighborhoods.»
Trever Holland, a
tenant leader and task force member, told us today it's not clear why the
group will not be speaking in one unified voice at the meetings.
According to the order, the independent monitor must be appointed within the next 60 days and will be chosen by the mayor, the City Council speaker and the president of the Citywide Council of Presidents, a
group of
tenant leaders chosen by Nycha residents, which sued the agency in February.
To counter Mr. Espada's advantages in name recognition and finances, the Working Families Party plans to raise money, knock on thousands of doors and recruit
leaders of religious,
tenants» and civic
groups.
After moderating a forum of
tenants group leaders at 1199 SEIU's credit union headquarters on 43rd Street, Ms. James urged the audience to take an aggressive posture toward the state legislators — one half of which is controlled by real estate industry - friendly Republicans — to pressure them into fortifying the city's rent regulations when they come up for renewal this year this year.
Erik Foster,
leader of the firm's national industrial capital markets
group, says Amazon and FedEx are examples of today's «super
tenant» because of the domination of modern warehouse - based retailing in the industrial sector.
Currently both the East Tower and West Tower encompassing about 750,000 sq. ft. is fully leased to an array of credit
tenants, says says John Isaacs, executive vice president and life science practice
group leader at CBRE in New York.