Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent hikes based on installation of new windows. After the DRA ruled for landlord in 2011, tenants appealed and lost. Tenants claimed that the useful life of the prior windows...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent hikes based on the installation of building-wide rewiring. The DRA ruled for landlord, and tenants appealed. Tenants claimed that some of the room counts listed in landlord...
The DHCR's Rent Administrator granted landlord's application for MCI rent hikes based on building-wide gas re-piping. Tenants appealed and lost. Tenants claimed that the cost for the work claimed by landlord...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes on March 29, 2019, based on exterior building restoration work. The DRA ruled for landlord. However, because the HSTPA amended the rent stabilization and rent control laws...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of windows and an intercom system. The DRA ruled against landlord because the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (HSTPA) amended the rent...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes in January 2019 based on elevator upgrading. The DRA ruled for landlord in October 2019. The DRA applied provisions concerning MCI rent hikes contained in HSTPA, which amended the...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a new fuel oil tank and fuel line. The DRA ruled against landlord, finding that the work was an interim repair rather than a building-wide improvement....
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of an oil/gas burner. The DRA ruled for landlord in part but denied costs for a gas piping installation. Landlord appealed and won. The DHCR acknowledged that...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a new roof, iron fences, and railings. The DRA ruled against landlord because 35 percent or fewer of the building's apartments were subject...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of an oil/gas burner. The DRA ruled for landlord in part, denying that portion of the application that sought a rent increase for installation of gas piping....
Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent hikes based on gas re-piping and asbestos removal. The DRA ruled for landlord. Tenants appealed and lost. Tenants claimed that there were 28 outstanding HPD B violations and...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on building-wide kitchen and bathroom modernizations. The DRA ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost. Effective June 14, 2019, HSTPA amended rent control and rent...
