Dashiell Allen
Cristina Ramirez in her Harlem apartment, next to photos of her late husband Jacobo Villano Pardo, a delivery worker who died in a February bike crash.
Seventeen previously rent-stabilized apartments in Cristina Ramirez’s Harlem building haven’t been registered with the state since 2018. Her legal team says her case is illustrative of the need for greater enforcement of New York’s rent laws.
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