Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s former landlord hiked rent on the pol’s previous rent-stabilized apartment in Queens by 35% — an example of the tactics fed-up property managers could use to skirt the city’s new rent-freeze . NYC’s Rent Guidelines Board voted last week to freeze rent increases on tenant renewals for the city’s 1 million rent-stabilized units starting in October — one of the main planks of Mamdani’s far-left platform. A later vote will decide whether the freeze lasts through 2028. In the