[busterarm]

I'm a rent-controlled tenant in a beautiful apartment building on West 55th Street. My rent is low, but not obscenely so.

I lived here through the hard times when the neighborhood was shitty and filled with derelicts, winos and prostitutes.

We all kept the building clean and nice. We lived in the building when _nobody wanted to live here_. We chased out the crooks who used to try to mug people in our elevator and kick open doors. The landlord made improvements to the building because the way the rent control law is designed, _they have to_ to get rent increases.

And we're still here and a great tenant and great neighbors.

Oh and of course the landlord has been trying all sorts of illegal means to get us (and the single-digit handful of other controlled tenants, 100+ unit building) out - and regularly gets verbally slapped around by a judge in housing court. It's a good thing we held on to hold on to _all of our records related to being in this apartment all the way back to 1970_...because we had to.