Studio apartments in good cause buildings for rent near SIM33C Mariners Harbor - Greenwich Village Express in Gramercy Park, Manhattan

It means the apartments are in buildings that may fall under New York’s good cause tenant-protection rules, which can limit certain rent increases and some non-renewals. It is not a neighborhood filter.

No. Good cause is a market-rental tenant-protection category, not income-restricted, subsidized, NYCHA, HPD, Section 8, or lottery housing.

Good cause and rent stabilization are different legal categories. Rent stabilization is a separate regulatory system with its own rent-increase and renewal rules, while good cause is about tenant-protection limits in qualifying market-rate buildings.

It gives a quick sense of the middle of the current inventory for this page. For a studio, that number can move quickly with location, building age, amenities, and lease terms.

This page is not an affordable filter page, so there is no market-relative affordable threshold here. If you use Openigloo’s affordable filter elsewhere, it is based on the 25th percentile of gross rents for the page’s scope, not on official housing-program rules.

Location near transit, building age, amenities, broker fee, security deposit, utilities, and lease length can all change the true monthly cost.

Confirm the rent, any fees or deposits, lease renewal terms, whether the building actually qualifies for the good cause rules, and whether the layout works for a studio setup.