A mixed-income building on the Upper West Side has banned rent-stabilized tenants from a fancy new gym, decreeing that only those who pay market-rate rents can use the facility.
“It’s so insulting and unnecessary,” fumed Jean Green Dorsey, 74, president of the tenants association at Stonehenge Village on West 97th Street.
“My members went ballistic. The rent-stabilized residents . . . said, ‘Are you going to ask us for passbooks next, like in apartheid?’ ” saidDorsey, who pays $1,000 a month for her stabilized two-bedroom apartment.
About 60 percent of the units in the 417-apartment building are rent-stabilized, meaning the gym is off limits to a majority of the tenants.
“I think we can sue them and get an injunction,” Dorsey said.
A spokeswoman for Stonehenge defended the policy.
“The small gym we built and opened this week is different in that it is aimed specifically at new and prospective tenants who expect certain amenities and incentives that are commonly available to market-rate renters,” Marcia Horowitz said.