Manhattan Human Rights Commissioner has agreed to hold a hearing on Stonehenge Village’s fitness center guidelines after a longtime tenant Jean Green-Dorsey filed a complaint.

Manhattan luxury improvement has banned residents in the affordable-housing units from utilizing the building’s state-of-the-art health club. However, health club ban might violate laws.

Green-Dorsey has lived in the Upper West Side constructing and pays $1,080 month-to-month. The city human rights officials stated that her apartment where only high-paying tenants can use the gym may be illegally discriminating.

According to Green Dorsey's complaint, the gym is totally free to market place-price residents but off-limits to rent-regulated tenants who are largely over 65. She said, “If it’s in the prevalent location, it ought to be accessible to everyone.

The corporation that owns the constructing on Manhattan's Upper West Side was trying to function out a solution to the dispute on Friday.

In a notice Thursday, the city Human Rights Commission said that there was sufficient proof of age discrimination to merit an administrative trial.

Jean Green Dorsey, tenant’s president said that she's hopeful that the landlord will now let rent-stabilized tenants pay a reasonable charge to use the gym and continue to be totally free for their greater-rent neighbors.

The landlord, Stonehenge Partners, stated that it was in search of cordial resolution to the situation and had made several proposals. According to the firm, the fitness center was built to attract market place-price tenants, and the distinction wasn't primarily based on age.

Stonehenge Partners lawyer Jerrold Goldberg noted that the building's courtyard and some other amenities are open to all residents. The stabilized tenants who occupy about 60% of the more than 400 apartments get added benefits, which include lesser rent.