Tenant sued landlord for illegal lockout. She claimed that landlord didn't give her keycards to the new locks that had been installed on the entry doors solely because she had refused to provide landlord with a...
In January 2014, Landord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for using the apartment for an illegal trade or business. Landlord claimed that on Sept. 21, 2011, tenant possessed and maintained loaded firearms and...
Landlord sued to evict SRO hotel tenant for illegal occupancy because a 6- or 7-year-old child was living in the unit in violation of Housing Maintenance Code Section 27-2076(b). The court granted tenant's...
Rent-controlled tenant's son sued landlord for illegal lockout after tenant died. The court granted landlord's request to dismiss the case without a trial. The son appealed, and the case was reopened. There...
Landlord sued to evict apartment occupants. Tenant had moved out in 2009, and landlord claimed that occupants were merely tenant's licensees. Occupants claimed that tenant hadn't surrendered the apartment and...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for illegal use of her rent-stabilized apartment based on drug trafficking. The court ruled for landlord after a trial. Tenant appealed and won. Even if there was sufficient proof that...
FNMA foreclosed on tenant-shareholder's cooperative apartment and then brought an eviction proceeding against tenant. Tenant, in turn, sued FNMA, claiming that the foreclosure was improper. Tenant asked the court...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for refusing to provide access so that landlord could replace the heating system located in and servicing tenant's apartment. Landlord had been replacing the original electric...
A co-op apartment shareholder tenant defaulted on a $180,000 mortgage loan she obtained to purchase a Brooklyn apartment. The lender foreclosed on the apartment in 2011, then assigned the property to the Federal...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of three months' rent. Landlord learned that tenant had died only when her son appeared in court and claimed that he had succession rights to the...
