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Tenants Ask for Lowered Rents and Refunds at Stuyvesant Town

  STUYVESANT TOWN AND PETER COOPER VILLAGE  
  MANHATTAN COMMUNITY DISTRICT 06  
November 25, 2009
Crain's New York Business

After December rent bills did not reflect any reductions in payments, lawyers for tenants at Stuyvesant Town are demanding that rents be lowered and that past rent payments be returned to those affected by the recent court ruling. The 4,000 tenants who live in the illegally deregulated apartments are estimated to receive about $4,000 each in refunds.