(Stuy) Town Hall Meeting About Tishman Speyer's Mailbox Surprises

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, Councilman Dan Garodnick, and assorted community groups are hosting a town hall meeting on Thursday evening to discuss the issues facing Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village residents.

The non-renewal notices from landlord Tishman Speyer that are allegedly flooding the mailboxes of both legal and illegal rent-stabilized tenants will be on the agenda; so will rent protection for market-rate tenants, roof improvements, and development concerns for the Con Edison site along First Avenue, according to a release issued today.

In this week’s Observer, Mr. Garodnick, himself a resident of Peter Cooper Village, talked to Eliot Brown about Tishman Speyer’s pursuit of illegal tenants subletting below-market-rate units since it bought the 11,200-apartment complex for $5.4 billion almost two years ago. Mr. Garodnick has called for a moratorium on non-renewal notices because they have been sent to many legal tenants.

The meeting will be at 423 East 23rd Street and will start at 6.