article_snippet.sent: An apartment house where only high-paying tenants can use the gym may be illegally discriminating, city human rights officials warned this week.
article_snippet.sent: The rent-regulated tenants excluded from the gym are largely over 65, while market-rate tenants aren't, according to a complaint last year from Jean Green Dorsey.
article_snippet.sent: Jean Green Dorsey says the refusal of landlords to let rent-stabilized tenants use the new gym facility in Other buildingsmacks of second-class citizenship .
article_snippet.sent: Jean Green Dorsey said being barred from using the exercise room smacked of second-class citizenship for the rent-stabilized tenants who occupy about 60 percent of the more than 400 apartments in the complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
article_snippet.sent: Jean Green Dorsey said tenants previously offered to do that but were rebuffed, spurring Jean Green Dorsey complaint. '
article_snippet.sent: You really shouldn't have to do all this to live a happy life,' said Green Dorsey, 75, who has lived in Other building since 1972.
article_snippet.sent: While city law prohibits discrimination based on age, it's silent on the subject of rent-regulation status.
article_snippet.sent: When you stigmatize individuals based individuals status as rent-regulated tenants, it was just inherently wrong and inconsistent with the general principles that we all hold dear.'