George Tzannes, a Croman tenant from the East Village last month (Photo: Luisa Rollenhagen)
Just a month ago we followed faith leaders and tenants as they tried to meet their landlord, Steve Croman of 9300 Realty (and honoree on The Village Voice‘s New York City’s 10 worst landlords list twice–once in 1998 and again in 2014). They wanted to deliver letters from 32 different religious figures, decrying Croman’s alleged tenant harassment tactics, such as cutting gas and heat, dangerous construction, low buyouts, and threatening frivolous lawsuits.
After six months of combative back and forth, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and AirBNB have come to an agreement that will allow the apartment-rental site to turn over anonymized data regarding its users and out them by name only if they become the subject of an investigation.