Consumer Protection

The Public Advocate’s office is dedicated to protecting the rights and needs of consumers and exposing predatory, deceitful or negligent business practices that take advantage of New Yorkers.

The Public Advocate’s office has worked to expose bad landlords and protect tenant services, system wide lapses in subway security and government contractors that are not providing quality service.

Current Campaigns:

Heat & Hot Water Enforcement
For far too many of our City’s tenants, winter means struggling to keep their apartments and their families warm because their landlords failed to provide heat and hot water as required by law.
 More >

Tenant, Condo & Co-op Resources
To assist New Yorkers with property management issues that may arise in their apartment buildings, condos or co-ops, Public Advocate de Blasio established a hotline and compiled a webpage of local government resources.
 More >

Related News

May 19, 2011

Statement by Public Advocate de Blasio on Closures to Fire Companies

“The list of fire company cutbacks shows what the Mayor’s budget really means for the safety of New Yorkers and their families. In my own neighborhood,..."
More >
May 4, 2011

Letter to Nissan on Local Jobs from Taxi Contract

Over the past few months, I have called on the Bloomberg Administration to require all three finalists in the Taxi of Tomorrow competition to present plans...
More >