RUTHANNE VISNAUSKAS
Commissioner/CEO

ANDREW M. CUOMO
Governor

May 24, 2017

Via Facsimile and Regular Mail

Andrew McLaughlin
Executive Director
New York City Rent Guidelines Board
1 Centre Street, Suite 2210
New York, NY 10007
Dear Mr. McLaughlin:
This is in response to your inquiry of May 8, 2017, from a public member of the board.
1.
What is the smallest geographic unit in which preferential rents can be identified? Borough? Community District?
Census block? Can a map of preferential rent density be provided?
Please see answer to question number 36.

2.
What percent are preferential rents below the legal rents on average? Can this analysis be broken down further
by borough etc.?

BRONX
BROOKLYN
MANHATTAN
QUEENS
STATEN ISLAND
NEW YORK CITY

Average Preferential Rent
$1,197
$1,630
$2,774
$1,536
$1,227
$1,839

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 3.
Can DHCR determine the ratio of rent regulated units to total units in each building? Can DHCR break that
information down by borough etc.?
2016 Fiscal year
as of 3/31/2017
Bronx
Manhattan
Queens
Brooklyn
Richmond
New York City
Total

Apartments Buildings
204,201
6,197
251,754
13,527
150,036
8,344
229,294
13,613
6,859
366
842,144

42,047

4.
How many of the current rent stabilized units are 421a units? How many 421a units became regulated in the most
recent year and how many exited regulation in that year?
According to the 2016 annual apartment registration there are approximately 75,000 rent stabilized units based on
421-a.
Part two of your question has already been answered in a submission to the NYC RGB on May 3, 2017.
5.

How many units exited rent regulation which had an MCI, IAI or vacancy increase in the past year?

Not available at this time.

Sincerely,

Woody Pascal
Deputy Commissioner
WP: mb

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