Article: Met Life is denied MCI rent increase. (major capital improvement increase for Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village)

Met Life stands to lose $4 million in retroactive major capital improvement (MCI) rent increases at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village because some windows installed in tenant apartments imploded after installation last winter.

MCI increases are retroactive to the date of application that is supposed to be made after the project is completed in a workmanlike manner. Assemblyman Steven Sanders, a Peter Cooper resident and a former Stuyvesant Town tenant association president, argued the work was not fully complete on the date of application because nearly 2,500 windows had to be replaced and all the windows needed retrofitting after the application date.

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