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GAMING the SYSTEM Landlords Are Exploiting a Key Loophole to Raise Rents on Thousands of Apartments by DANIEL GEIGER ASKED & ANSWERED Tina Brown on hosting “Woodstock for women” PAGE 11 ROBO GARAGES The future of parking CRAINSNEWYORK.COM | APRIL 8, 2019 | $3.00 PAGE 3 SPECIAL REPORT GAMING THE SYSTEM Landlords are exploiting a key loophole to raise rents on thousands of apartments BY DANIEL GEIGER n the fall of 2013, when apartment 1E at 171 W. 81st St. was vacated, the owner did what landlords have done with tens of thousands of other rent-regulated units in the city. Stellar Management claimed it had spent a bundle Ion renovations, which—combined with the 20% rent increase permitted when a tenant leaves—allowed it to push the $647 regulat- ed monthly rent above $2,500—to the threshold at the time to make it a BUCK ENNIS market-rate unit. A few months later Stellar See RENT REGS on page 20 HARRY PULVER HARRY FINANCE Chief Financial O cer John Weisenseel said. Mutual funds pivot to VC and PE, PDQ It’s a sign of the times. Although the stock market has gone pretty much straight up Even biggest asset managers are making substantial changes since the nancial crisis, the fortunes of Wall Street’s asset-management rms have gone in the opposite direction. Investors are pour- BY AARON ELSTEIN as investors continued to yank money out of e rm managed to secure temporary o ce ing money into low-fee passively managed mutual funds that try to beat the market, a space, so the majority of employees slated for index funds and have little patience for high- BUCK ENNIS llianceBernstein’s February confer- trend that last year prompted the Manhattan transfer will be moved before the permanent er-fee funds that aim to beat the market but ence call to discuss 2018 results was investment manager to cut costs by moving Nashville headquarters is ready next year. typically don’t. pretty somber. 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