Landlord sued month-to-month first-floor apartment tenant, seeking an order directing tenant to remove his personal property from the rear yard of the building. Landlord argued that it had rented a ground-floor store...
Tenant sued landlord's real estate broker in small claims court, seeking to recover the broker's $2,200 fee, paid before she rented an apartment in landlord's building. The trial court ruled against...
A group of landlords and organizations in Westchester County sued New York State, claiming that HSTPA's amendments to the ETPA violated their constitutional rights. Another landlord, who was the co-op shareholder...
NYCHA placed a condition on long-term tenant's tenancy, to permanently exclude tenant's roommate from the apartment based on his criminal record. Tenant applied to NYCHA to remove the condition. NYCHA ruled...
Shortly after HSTPA was enacted in June 2019, the Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP), Rent Stabilization Association of NYC (RSA), and several individual landlord entities sued the City of New York, DHCR,...
Tenant sued HRA, Adult Protective Services (APS), the Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (JASA), and related entities in an Article 78 court proceeding, claiming that they didn't provide appropriate...
The Rent Stabilization Association (RSA), a landlord's advocacy organization, sued McKee and the Tenants Political Action Committee, Inc. (TPAC), claiming defamation. On May 2, 2018, McKee had attended a NY City...
Landlord owned a two-family house and lived on the first floor. In 2001, landlord signed a housing assistance payment (HAP) contract with NYCHA based on the tenancy of a woman who lived with her two children on the...
Prospective tenant sued landlord's real estate broker in small claims court, seeking return of $500 that she paid to the broker in connection with her potential rental of an apartment. Tenant claimed that she...
Tenant sued former landlord in small claims court, seeking the return of her $2,000 security deposit, along with reimbursement of another $3,000 for costs she incurred for takeout food during five months that there...
Shareholder tenant sued cooperative building's board of directors for refusing to approve proposed buyers of her apartment, and claimed that they acted in bad faith.
Local community organizations, nonprofit groups, and residents of the "Two Bridges" neighborhood in Manhattan's Lower East Side (LES) filed an Article 78 court appeal, seeking annulment of the NYC...
