If you live in a rent-stabilized apartment in Cobble Hill Towers, and they try to jack up your rent by basing the increase on the legal rate instead of the preferential rate, you should know that they might or might not have the right to do so. I AM NOT A LAWYER. THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE. It is, however, a couple of links that might help you begin to suss out your own personal situation without subjecting yourself to too many painful hours of Google searches. As this Q&A in the Times advises, you need to check your original lease to see how it was written.
And YES, if you've already signed your lease and it was incorrect, chances are pretty good that they'll have to give you a new lease AND pay you back the extra money you've been paying them.
NYC Rent Guidelines.
Your two best friends, the NYS Division of Housing & Community Renewal and Fact Sheet #40.
DHCR phone number: 718-739-6400
Oh, look! It's a housing court decision from 2004.
The Metropolitan Council on Housing on the subject.
Don't be a Timbo.
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