Landlord rep quits Rent Guidelines Board hours before ‘freeze the rent’ vote, slams Mamdani’s cronies
Smyth, a real estate attorney and law firm owner, slammed Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s hand-picked board --- of which he appointed six of the nine members -- for turning a blind eye to rising building and insurance costs for landlords.
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Metro Landlord rep quits Rent Guidelines Board hours before ‘freeze the rent’ vote, slams Mamdani’s cronies By Hannah Fierick Published June 25, 2026, 10:34 a.m. ET See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google A landlord rep on the city’s Rent Guidelines Board resigned just hours before the group is scheduled to vote on a rent freeze. Christina Smyth, the board’s sole landlord representative, sent out a scathing letter of resignation to the group Thursday morning, claiming it had “stopped being a fact-finding body”, The New York Daily News first reported. Landlord representatives Christina Smyth and Robert Erlich at a Rent Guidelines Board meeting. William Miller “This rebuilt board was required to deliver a rent freeze.
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