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Benchmarking your buildings' energy performance is a key first step to understanding and reducing energy consumption and your carbon footprint. All buildings can assess their energy performance, water efficiency, and carbon emissions using Portfolio Manager.

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=evaluate_performance.bus_portfoliomanager

These are the updated permissible charges for an air conditioner in rent controlled and rent stabilized housing accommodations in New York City published by the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal on September 27, 2011. It is an annual update that reflects the amendments enacted by the Rent Regulation Reform Act...

If you rent or own property see how how you can get involved in New York State's NYSERDA's residential programs that help homeowners and renters reduce their energy costs through incentives and low-interest loans.

http://www.nyserda.ny.gov/residential

Check it out : http://www.aeanyc.org/site/c.dhJJJTOzFoH/b.6239717/k.DEE6/Con_Edison_MultiFamily_Energy_Efficiency_Program.htm

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Recently, a client who is a landlord in a rent stabilized building in New York City asked me whether he is required to provide access to cable companies to install equipment for cable television, and wether he is entitled to any compensation from the tenants or the cable companies.  There are several Federal and...

While the PSL only applies to cable television, the Federal Communicaitons Commission (FCC) regulation prohibit owners from interfering with access to a broad range of telecommunication and services including cable television, broadband and internet carriers, and telephone and cellular telephone carriers. Upon termination, the FCC regulations also require telecommunications companies to remove equipment or...

The Telecommunications Act of 1996, A Federal law, provides that property owners must permit tenants to install satellite dishes inside apartments and outside apartments "wherever they rent space outside of a building, such as balcony railings, patios, yards, gardens  or any other similar area." Most non-regulated and regulated residential leases contain a provision which...

In the 1980s New York enacted statutory provisions empowering the State regulatory commission to set compensation for installation of cable equipment.  In 1982, the validity of the regulations was upheld by the United States Supreme Court, in a case known as Loretto v. Teleprompter.  On remand from the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals...