Required notice
The State notice below applies everywhere in New York. New York City adds two steps on top of it.
New York State requires every housing provider and real estate broker to give tenants written notice of the right to request reasonable modifications and accommodations for a disability. The notice is published by the New York State Division of Human Rights under 9 NYCRR § 466.15.
In short: if a physical, mental, or medical impairment affects your use of your home, you can ask your housing provider to change a rule, a policy, or a physical feature of the building so that you have equal use of it. Some changes are at the provider’s expense and some at yours. The official notice above sets out the rights, the examples, and the accessibility standards — it governs, and this page does not restate it.
The State notice applies to anyone living anywhere in New York. Local laws can add to those protections; they cannot reduce them. If your home is in the five boroughs, the New York City Human Rights Law requires two things the State law does not.
Both come from Local Law 59 of 2018. Neither replaces anything in the State notice — they sit on top of it.
If you believe a request was wrongly denied, or that you were denied housing or treated differently because you made one, you can go to either agency, or to court.
Filing with one does not cost you the others, but the deadlines differ. Do not wait on one to decide about another.
This office delivers the notice in writing upon first substantive contact, as 9 NYCRR § 466.15 requires. Posting it here does not replace that. If you did not receive it directly and you should have, ask for it here and it will be sent to you in writing.
If you need it in a different format — large print, or electronically rather than on paper — say so and it will be sent that way. That is itself one of the accommodations the notice describes.
If a landlord or managing agent other than this office manages your home, your accommodation request goes to them, not here.
