PRIMARY RESIDENCE

Tenant Rented Second Apartment for His Adult Children

March 19, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonprimary residence. The court ruled against landlord after a trial. Tenant lived in the one-bedroom apartment with his mother and nephew. But tenant also rented...

Court Finds Tenant Lives Elsewhere with Her Husband

March 18, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonprimary residence. Tenant was a self-employed artist who had succeeded to the apartment as a family member of the prior rent-stabilized tenant. Landlord claimed...

Landlord Shows Tenant Virtually Abandoned Apartment

January 20, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonprimary residence. The trial court ruled for landlord. Tenant appealed and lost. Among other things, landlord presented compelling photographs that showed that...

Tenant Temporarily Absent from Apartment Due to Medical Condition

December 18, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonprimary residence. Landlord claimed that tenant lived in a Los Angeles hotel for at least a year, hadn't voted in New York City since 1984, didn't have...

Landlord Can Use Recent Videotape to Rebut Tenant's Claim

November 24, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonprimary residence. Landlord claimed that tenant hadn't been seen at the building for six months and that she lived in another apartment in the city with her...

Tenant Maintained Primary Residence at Apartment

November 24, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonprimary residence. Landlord claimed that tenant spent hardly any time at the apartment and maintained a residence elsewhere in New York State. The court ruled for...

Landlord Wasn't Required to Send Termination Notice to Tenant's Husband

November 21, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonprimary residence. Tenant and her husband asked the court to dismiss the case because landlord hadn't served a copy of its lease termination notice on the husband. The court...

Tenant Lived in Neighbor's Apartment in the Same Building

November 17, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonprimary residence. Landlord...

Corporation Can Be Primary Resident

September 26, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant and apartment occupants, claiming that tenant was a licensee no longer entitled to occupy the premises after its lease expired. Tenant was an agency that provided "...

Tenant Primarily Resided at Inherited Philadelphia Home

September 21, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant in 2013 for nonprimary residence. Landlord claimed that tenant failed to spend more than 183 days in the apartment in the prior year and that tenant actually lived at a...

Landlord Can Evict Corporate Tenant for Nonprimary Residence

August 17, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict a not-for-profit corporation from a rent-stabilized apartment based on nonprimary residence. Tenant asked the court to dismiss the case. Tenant argued that landlord knew that its purpose was to...

Tenant and Son Lived in Israel for Over Three Years

August 14, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonprimary residence. The court ruled for landlord after a trial. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant acknowledged that she had lived in Israel for all but 54 days...