More than 1,000 furious tenants at the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village housing complex were saved from mid-lease rent increases yesterday after Attorney General Eric Schneiderman intervened.
The hikes were scheduled to hit next month.
Tenants won’t receive a hike so long as they sign an affidavit vowing that they had been promised set rents when they signed their leases.
For Thomas Beaudoin, who has lived in the sprawling building since 2008, the surprise increase would have cost him and his roommate $4,365 a month.
That’s $1,500 above the current rent for their two-bedroom apartment.
Beaudoin said he was “relieved” that landlord CW Capital back-pedaled on the controversial hike after Schneiderman stepped in.
Before Beaudoin signed his latest two-year lease in October 2011, he questioned Stuy Town’s leasing agent about the $4,365 figure in the text of the lease, he said.
The agent assured him it was nothing.
“She explained that is just the market rent but that we would get the lower rent for the term of our lease,” said Beaudoin, who said he has the e-mails to prove it.
City Councilman Dan Garodnick, a long-time Stuy Town tenant who kicked off the AG’s probe, said it is unclear how many will come forward.