S 10509 NY
Relates to expanding the definition of interim multiple dwelling to provide protections for certain residents
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Summary
This New York bill expands the definition of interim multiple dwelling (lofts) in a specific area of New York City to extend protections to long-time residents. The bill protects residents who have continuously occupied a building since before December 31, 1995, and who had three or more families living independently in the building for at least twelve consecutive months between December 31, 1995 and December 31, 2016. These protections apply to remaining residents even if the number of occupied residential units in the building is later reduced. The bill also requires that any non-residential space in such buildings be offered for residential use only after obtaining a residential certificate of occupancy.
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Expands the definition of interim multiple dwelling (lofts) to provide protections for certain remaining, long time residents.
Sponsor (1)
- Erik Bottcher Democratic · primary
Action history (1)
- May 15, 2026 REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT · upper
Text versions (2)
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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee Votes Floor Votes Memo Text LFIN Chamber Video/Transcript S10509 Summary: BILL NO S10509   SAME AS SAME AS A11135
  SPONSOR BOTTCHER   COSPNSR   MLTSPNSR   Amd §281, Mult Dwell L   Expands the definition of interim multiple dwelling (lofts) to provide protections for certain remaining, long time residents.
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________
10509
IN SENATE
May 15, 2026 ___________
Introduced by Sen. BOTTCHER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development
AN ACT to amend the multiple dwelling law, in relation to the definition of interim multiple dwelling
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 6 of section 281 of the multi- 2 ple dwelling law, as added by chapter 41 of the laws of 2019, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 (c) The term "interim multiple dwelling", as used in this subdivision 5 shall also include buildings, structures or portions thereof that are 6 located north of West 24th Street and south of West 27th Street and west 7 of tenth avenue and east of eleventh avenue in a city of more than one 8 million persons which were occupied for residential purposes as the 9 residence or home of any two or more families living independently from 10 one another for a period of twelve consecutive months during the period 11 commencing January first, two thousand fifteen, and ending December 12 thirty-first, two thousand sixteen and subject to all the conditions and 13 limitations of this subdivision other than the number of units in the 14 building. A reduction in the number of occupied residential units in a 15 building after meeting the aforementioned twelve consecutive month 16 requirement shall not eliminate the protections of this section for any 17 remaining residential occupants qualified for such protections nor shall 18 a reduction in the number of occupied residential units in a building 19 during or prior to the period of the aforementioned twelve consecutive 20 month requirement eliminate the protections of this section for any 21 remaining residential occupants qualified for such protections, provided 22 that the remaining occupants' continuous residential use commenced prior 23 to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-five and that there 24 were three or more families living independently of one another for any 25 twelve consecutive months during the period commencing December thirty- 26 first, nineteen hundred ninety-five and ending December thirty-first, 27 two thousand sixteen . Non-residential space in a building as of the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15438-01-6
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1 effective date of this subdivision shall be offered for residential use 2 only after the obtaining of a residential certificate of occupancy for 3 such space and such space shall be exempt from this article, even if a 4 portion of such building may be an interim multiple dwelling. 5 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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