Appeals Court Reinstates Building's 7-A Administrator
LVT Number: #33618
In 2022, a trial court appointed a 7-A administrator to operate landlord's building. In 2023, new landlord bought the building and asked the court to discharge the 7-A administrator, claiming that it was ready, willing, and able to start work to remedy the premises' conditions. This included 46 outstanding violations. New landlord also claimed that it was ready, willing, and able to pay HPD $130,000 in outstanding fines. Over objections by HPD and the 7-A administrator, the court granted landlord's request.
HPD appealed and won, and the 7-A administrator was reinstated. Landlord's proposal to cure the building violations didn't show for certain that the proposed work would remedy the building's structural issues. And the record before the lower court didn't sufficiently demonstrate that landlord had the financial means to continually maintain the building.
Matter of HPD (Wyckoff Holdings NY LLC): Index No. 2023-1319KC, 2025 NY Slip Op 25099 (App. T. 2; 2/14/25; Buggs, JP, Ottley, Quinones, JJ)