Apartments in good cause buildings for rent near M9 Battery Park City - Kips Bay in Greenwich Village, Manhattan

Good cause refers to tenant-protection rules that can limit certain rent increases or non-renewals in qualifying buildings. It is not a neighborhood and it does not guarantee the same protection in every apartment, so confirm the building’s status before you apply.

No. Good cause is a market-based tenant-protection category, not income-restricted, subsidized, NYCHA, HPD, Section 8, or lottery housing. You still need to review the asking rent and lease terms like any other apartment.

The filter narrows the page to apartments in buildings that may fall under good cause protections. The units are still market-rate apartments for rent, so the asking rent, fees, and lease terms can vary by building and unit.

This page does not use an affordable filter. For context, Openigloo’s affordable filter is market-relative and based on the 25th percentile of gross rents for the page’s scope, but that is separate from good cause.

Confirm the building’s good cause status, whether any protections apply to your specific lease, and whether there are broker fees, deposits, utility charges, or other move-in costs.

In Manhattan, asking rent can vary a lot by transit access, building age, amenities, and lease terms. Those factors can change the monthly total even when two apartments look similar at first glance.

Recent inventory in the surrounding scope is concentrated in 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.