{"id":131036,"date":"2026-02-12T07:58:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131036\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T07:58:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:58:01","slug":"nyc-alleges-bait-and-switch-business-practices-by-extra-space-storage-in-new-lawsuit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131036\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC alleges \u2018bait and switch business practices\u2019 by Extra Space Storage in new lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Uncontrolled rat infestations, thousands of dollars lost in destroyed items, misleading advertising and unnoticed rate increases are just some of the issues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extraspace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Extra Space Storage<\/a> renters have dealt with for years, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/dca\/downloads\/pdf\/media\/Complaint-DCWP-v-Extra-Space-Storage-2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lawsuit<\/a> filed Tuesday by the New York City government.<\/p>\n<p>The civil action is the first filed by the city\u2019s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) against a self-storage company, and comes as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/15\/nyregion\/nyc-motoclick-delivery-workers-lawsuit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the agency pledges<\/a> to be more aggressive in its efforts to hold the industry to account.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/law\/extra-space-storage-nyc-suit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tNYC alleges \u2018bait and switch business practices\u2019 by Extra Space Storage in new lawsuit &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Uncontrolled rat infestations, thousands of dollars lost in destroyed items, misleading advertising and unnoticed rate increases are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[56114,56115,2710,3100,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-131036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-department-of-consumer-and-worker-protections","9":"tag-extra-space-storage","10":"tag-law","11":"tag-lawsuit","12":"tag-manhattan","13":"tag-manhattan-headlines","14":"tag-manhattan-news","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}