Stuy Town rent-regulation battle

A 43-year-old woman was struck by a train after tumbling onto the tracks at a Harlem subway stop early Thursday but miraculously survived the harrowing ordeal, officials said.

The woman was walking with a friend near the edge of the uptown A train platform at the 116th St. station when she lost her balance and tumbled onto the tracks about 1:30 a.m.

She scrambled to get back up onto the platform but couldn’t make it and was hit by a train, officials said.

Medics were called and removed the woman, who was conscious, to St. Luke’s Hospital. Her condition was not immediately clear.

Tenants in two sprawling East Side apartment complexes are suing their landlords to stop thousands of rent-regulated apartments from conversion to marketrate rentals.

The owners of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village would be violating a new state rent law if they deregulate apartments, says the suit filed Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

“This law meant thousands of our neighbors could now plan on staying in their homes, protected by rent regula tion,” said Susan Steinberg, president of the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association, a plaintiff in the lawsuit. “We are not about to see them made orphans of the new rent laws when these laws are clear and unambiguous.”

The two apartment complexes are owned by subsidiaries of the multinational private equity firm Blackstone and its partner, Ivanhoe Cambridge,

As part of its massive $5.3 billion agreement to buy the two complexes in 2015, Blackstone and Ivanhoe Cambridge agreed to maintain 45% of the apartments in the complex — 5,000 units — as affordable. Those units will remain affordable, Blackstone spokeswoman Jennifer Friedman said.

But the complexes’ owners say that regardless of the new state law, a 2012 legal settlement stipulates that the other 6,000 or so units in Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village would be removed from rent regulation when they were removed from the state’s J-51 tax exemption program, which gives tax breaks to landlords that renovate and improve housing.

“No tenant subject to the J-51 program has seen an increase in rents above those legally allowed under rent stabilization,” Friedman said.