Tenant groups, stridently calling for a rent rollback, turned out in force at Monday’s Rent Guidelines Board vote at Cooper Union’s Great Hall at E. Seventh St. and Third Ave.
But despite an hour of ear-splitting chanting by the hundreds of tenants who packed the historic hall, the R.G.B. instead chose to repeat last year’s vote, backing a rent freeze for one-year lease renewals for rent-regulated apartments and a 2 percent increase for two-year lease renewals.
The board’s two tenant members did support a rollback of -4 percent and -2 percent for lease renewals, but their motion was voted down by the board by 7 to 2.
