Apartments in good cause buildings for rent near M14D-SBS Lower East Side - Chelsea Piers in East Village, Manhattan

It means the page is limited to apartments for rent in good cause buildings, which are tied to tenant-protection rules. It is not a neighborhood label and it does not mean lower rent.

There are 170+ apartments for rent on this page, with a median rent of $5,242.

The latest snapshot shows East Village with 225+ apartments for rent, Hell's Kitchen with 388+ apartments for rent, Stuyvesant Town/PCV with 268+ apartments for rent, Kips Bay with 221+ apartments for rent, and Yorkville with 196+ apartments for rent.

Ask whether the unit is still covered, how renewals work, and whether the building has any lease-specific rules, fees, or limits that affect move-in and future increases.

No. Good cause is a market housing protection category, not an official affordable-housing program. These apartments are still priced by the market, so you should compare asking rent, fees, and lease terms carefully.

This page is not using the affordable filter. For Openigloo's affordable pages, the threshold is set from the 25th percentile of gross rents within the page's scope, which makes it a market-relative affordability threshold rather than a government program.

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