{"id":303958,"date":"2026-07-23T18:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303958\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:24:09","slug":"nyc-landlords-sue-over-mamdanis-illegal-rent-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303958\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC landlords sue over Mamdani&#8217;s &#8216;illegal&#8217; rent freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">\n              Kenny Burgos, CEO of New York Apartment Association, discusses NYC landlords suing over Mayor Mamdani&#8217;s rent freeze, claiming the board ignored data and was packed with loyalists to achieve a predetermined outcome.\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">Kenny Burgos, CEO of New York Apartment Association, discusses a lawsuit by NYC landlords against Mayor Mamdani&#8217;s rent freeze. Burgos explains that the rent freeze is deemed illegal because Mamdani appointed board members who allegedly ignored data on rising costs. A former board member resigned in protest, calling the outcome predetermined, warranting legal questions on the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenny Burgos, CEO of New York Apartment Association, discusses NYC landlords suing over Mayor Mamdani&#8217;s rent freeze, claiming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-303958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303958","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=303958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}