On April 20, 2024, New York State enacted the Good Cause Eviction Law, which limits evictions, requires lease renewals, and caps rent increase for most market-rate apartments in NYC and, potentially, other villages,...
Landlord applied to the DHCR in 2020 for a ruling granting permission to refuse to renew a rent-stabilized tenant's lease because it sought to remove the apartment from the rental market for its own business use...
Landlord sued in August 2023 to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent between August 2022 and June 2023. Among other things, tenant pointed out that she didn't have a renewal lease from 2019 through...
Landlord sued to evict apartment subtenant after sending a 60-day notice of nonrenewal and termination of residential subtenancy. Landlord asked the court to rule in its favor without a trial and grant possession...
Landlord sued to evict the prior owner of a two-family house in 2020, after serving a 10-day notice to quit. Landlord claimed that the occupant had been a licensee, whose license had now expired since title passed to...
Former building owner, who lived in the building, sued mortgage company for illegal lockout. The court ruled for the owner after trial. The owner testified that he'd lived at the building since July 2007 and...
Former tenant and another person sued landlord for breach of bailment and emotional distress, claiming that landlord had removed and damaged personal property from an apartment after tenant's eviction. Landlord...
Tenant sued landlord, claiming illegal lockout. She claimed that she and her family left their apartment for a one-week vacation. When they returned, the locks to the building and their apartment had been changed and...
Upstate landlord sued to evict unregulated tenant in 2020. The case was delayed due to the eviction moratorium, tenant's Hardship Declaration, and, later, tenant's filing of an ERAP application for rental...
Tenant sued landlord for retaliation under RPL Section 223-b, breach of the warranty of habitability, and attorneys' fees. The court ruled against tenant, who appealed and won, in part. The appeals court affirmed...
Landlord sued to evict tenant in February 2020, seeking to recover possession of an unregulated apartment. Landlord and tenant, both represented by attorneys, signed a settlement stipulation, so-ordered by the court...
Tenant sued landlord for illegal lockout in April 2023. The court dismissed the case when tenant failed to appear in court on May 1, 2023. But the court granted tenant's subsequent Order to Show Cause to vacate...
