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Legal Aid

Lyris Ming, a rent-stabilized tenant in Crown Heights.

In this short piece, the Legal Aid Society discusses the rezoning and development plans that are re-shaping the neighborhoods of Crown Heights and East Harlem, and reveals the impact of those plans on some of New York City’s most vulnerable residents: rent stabilized tenants.

Jennifer Levy is the supervising attorney and Kat Meyers is a staff attorney in the Civil Law Reform Unit at The Legal Aid Society.

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