Tag: Empire State Realty and Management
Trans tenant wins $25k after landlord wouldn’t rent her an apartment ‘around people &...
It took Giana Desir over three years to get justice, but she did.
An administrative judge ruled that Desir was humiliated and denied service by landlord Henry Walter and Empire State Realty and Management.
When she started transitioning, her then-landlord refused to renew her lease. So when a friend recommended a building where Walter was the landlord. But when she walked in to meet with him, she said things went south quickly.
Walter seemed “shocked and surprised,” she said in her complaint, adding...