The Right to the City: Housing, Gentrification & Tenants Rights: Legal Research

• Private Housing Finance Law, Article 2 (Limited-Profit Housing Companies Law) The "Mitchell-Lama Law." (Laws of NY) 
• Private Housing Finance Law, Article 4 (Limited-Dividend Housing Companies Law) (Laws of NY) 
• Occupancy regulations for DHCR-supervised Mitchell-Lama and limited dividend housing(Title 9 NYCRR, subtitle S, ch IV, subch C, part 1727) (Free source: New York Codes, Rules, and Regulations) 
• Complete regulations governing DHCR-supervised Mitchell-Lama and limited dividend housing companies (Free source: New York Codes, Rules, and Regulations) 
• Regulations for HPD-supervised Mitchell-Lama housing (pdf)

• Administrative Code of the City of New York (Laws of NY) 
• New York City Charter (Laws of NY)

            Unofficial versions of the New York City Charter and Administrative Code of the City of New York:

• New York City Charter and Administrative Code (New York Legal Publishing Corp.)
• New York City Local Laws, Resolutions, and Introductions 1999-present (NYC Council) 
• Rules of the City of New York

            Unannotated, searchable version provided by the New York Legal Publishing Corp. 

• Links to selected housing-related RCNY provisions.

• New York State Law Reporting Bureau Legal Research Portal 
• Glossary of Legal Terms 
• English-Spanish Glossary of Legal Terms / Glosario de Terminología Jurídica Corriente (Inglés - Español) 
• New York Law Reports Style Manual  The official legal citation and style authority for NY state courts.

• City Rent and Rehabilitation Law (Administrative Code of the City of New York, title 26, chapter 3) (Laws of NY)  (Also on Loislaw [see access note]) 
• NYC Rent and Eviction Regulations, 9 NYCRR parts 2200-2211  Regulations governing NYCrent control (Unofficial, hyperlink-enhanced version, current through most recent amendments effective October 2005).
  • Free, official source: New York Codes, Rules, and Regulations (Department of State; current through most recent amendments) 

• New York City and State Housing Standards Tables identifying key statutory provisions; links to additional resources. 
• Multiple Dwelling Law (Laws of NY) 
• New York City Housing Maintenance Code (Administrative Code of City of NY title 27, chapter 2) (Laws of NY) 
• Title 28 of the Rules of the City of New York: Department of Housing Preservation and Development
  • Linked table of contents of HPD rules.
• New York City Construction Codes 
• New York City 1968 Building Code 
• New York City Window Guard Regulations New York City Health Code (24 RCNY) § 12-01 et seq. 

• NYC Marshals Handbook of Regulations -- Evictions and Legal Possessions

              Procedures governing the execution of warrants of eviction.

• NYPD Patrol Guide Procedures 214-12 and 214-13 (pdf)

              NYPD directives on illegal and court-ordered evictions.

• New York State Public Access Law Libraries
• Library Materials Document Delivery Service 
• LION online catalog 
• Lexis (NOTE: Link accessible via UCS courthouse WiFi network or LAN)
• Law libraries with public access in the greater New York area 
• New York County Public Access Law Library 
• Kings County (Brooklyn) Supreme Court Law Library 
• Law Library of Queens County 
• CUNY School of Law Library 
• City Hall Library (for New York City reports and publications) 
• Other public law collections in Manhattan

All of New York City's law school libraries and most of its university libraries are Federal Depository Libraries and several are designated by the New York State Document Depository Program as New York State Documents Reference Centers. These libraries must make deposited federal and state materials freely available to the public pursuant to the Federal Depository Libraries public access statute and the New York State Document Depository Manual. Library patrons using government document collections might have access to other research material and databases, depending on library policies. Complete list of Federal Depository Libraries in New York.