Mailboxes Installed in Same Location Don't Qualify as MCI

The DRA denied landlord's application for MCI rent hikes based on the installations of mailboxes and a second-floor roof and skylight. Landlord appealed and lost. To qualify as an MCI, new mailboxes must be structurally relocated to a more secure area behind locked doors. Since landlord's mailboxes were simply replaced in the same location as the old ones, the work didn't qualify. The second-floor roof didn't qualify because landlord didn't replace the building's entire roofing. And the skylight didn't qualify as an MCI by itself. Nor was it installed in connection with an entire new roofing system.

710 Amsterdam Avenue: DHCR Adm. Rev. Docket No. YL430044RO (10/31/13) [1-pg. doc.]