Cornegy bill protects stores from landlord harassment
Landlords of commercial buildings would face huge penalties for bullying storeowner tenants into paying exorbitant rents under a bill the City Council passed on Tuesday.
Councilmember Robert Cornegy Jr. (D-Bed-Stuy-Crown Heights) sponsored the legislation, which Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to sign into law.
The bill seeks to amend the administrative code of New York City to curtail what Cornegy said is the harassment of small businesses and other non-residential tenants by greedy landlords looking to make a fast buck.