A federal judge found that a constitutional challenge brought by a 75-year-old Manhattan hotel against a state law passed in 2016 banning the advertisement of short-term rentals in New York City, known as the Airbnb law, may proceed.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York comes in one of four pending cases challenging laws prohibiting the use and advertisement of short-term rentals, which center around a group of buildings on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that the New York City government says are being used as illegal hotels.
