About Us

Where We've Been

For decades, Pinnacle Group took tenants’ rent checks and ignored our requests for repairs and basic maintenance. Across the city, our landlord and the like used systematic neglect and illegal rent increases to drive out long-term tenants and drive up rents. The Union of Pinnacle Tenants was founded in the fall of 2025 after our landlord, Pinnacle Group, filed for bankruptcy and put 93 of its buildings up for auction in bankruptcy court. Unsure if your building was part of the bankruptcy auction? Click here for a list.

We came together to say: ENOUGH! We’re rent stabilized, we’re organized, and we want a say in who controls our homes. We formed a citywide tenant union to demand improved living conditions and to demand a seat at the table in the auction. We rallied tenants’ associations in buildings across the city. We organized for the Legal Aid Society to represent our interests in court with twenty-two elected officials pushing for our demands. And together, we won the support of Mayor Zohran Mamdani on his first day in office.

In January, a bankruptcy judge approved the sale of the 93 buildings from Pinnacle Group to Summit Properties.

However, because of our collective power and organizing, we won guarantees of repairs for these buildings:

● Summit will be forced to cure all Class B and C violations of the city housing codes

within six months of taking ownership.

● Summit will spend at least $30 million on repairs and maintenance in the first 5 years.

What's Next?

Because of what we have already accomplished, we have even more opportunities to secure better living conditions and protect our rights. We're collecting our demands and taking them directly to our landlords — Summit tenants to Summit, and Pinnacle tenants to Pinnacle — to ensure they are finally met. We're working directly with the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants (MOPT) and the NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD) to support our fight.

Through the collective power of our organizing, we can force our landlords to sit down and negotiate with us to ensure that our needs are respected and our demands are met. The first step in this process is knowing what we want to fight for. We want all tenants to have an opportunity to participate in shaping a list of demands so our union can best represent everyone’s needs and priorities, and our representative council will vote to ratify these demands. Once negotiations begin, we will engage with the power of city agencies, with our support from elected officials, and with the acquired media attention — and more forms of escalation with collective action, if necessary — to pressure our landlords to give us what we deserve.

Get Involved!

The Union of Pinnacle Tenants is made up of Pinnacle (and now Summit) tenants across NYC. We have a city-wide union, multiple local and neighborhood chapters, and would like to have tenant associations in each of our buildings. You can get involved at every level!