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Nearly 100 rent-stabilized residents of the Hotel Windermere claim the landlord of the Upper West Side property is trying to oust them with new, overly restrictive leases.

The 95 longtime tenants argue in a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit that Windermere Owners LLC and Stellar Management are required to offer them leases similar to their current rental agreements.

Instead, they were given 60 days to sign new deals that restricted pet ownership, banned smoking, required 80 percent of their apartment floors to be covered by carpets or rugs, and forbid them from bringing bicycles through the front door, according to court papers.

“Current ownership has attempted to recapture as many regulated apartments as possible, to reconfigure and renovate them for luxury rental purposes with rents as high as $19,000 per month,” the tenants claim.

About half the building has changed over to market-rate apartments.

The tenants want a court order barring the landlord from evicting them for eschewing the restrictive leases. Windermere and Stewart Management did not return messages.

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