Landlord Didn't Provide Correct Tenant Mailing Addresses

Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on the installation of closed-circuit TV, a new water tank, new elevators, and new windows. The DRA initially ruled for landlord but then revoked the rent increases based on irregularities in a vital matter. Landlord had failed to differentiate the tenant mailing addresses with its application and didn't provide further information as the DRA requested.

Landlord appealed and lost. The premises was one two-sided building with two addresses. But landlord didn't identify the separate mailing address for the tenants at 241 West 97th Street when it filed its MCI application. As a result, all notices of landlord's MCI application were mailed by the DRA to 240 West 98th Street, and some tenants didn't receive them. Landlord claimed that, as long as the apartment number was on the envelope, mail addressed incorrectly to 240 West 98th Street was delivered to tenants with a 241 West 97th Street address. But that was beside the point. And many of the notices sent to tenants by the DRA were returned by the post office as undeliverable. Landlord didn't respond to the DRA's request for proper mailing addresses.

240 West 98th Street/241 West 97th Street: DHCR Adm. Rev. Docket No. WI430016RO (8/16/13) [2-pg. doc.]