Owners and owner organizations sued the State of New York in federal court in 2020, claiming that the HSTPA effected a physical and regulatory taking of their property in violation of the Takings Clause of the Fifth...
Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2020, claiming rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that her apartment was no longer rent stabilized. Tenant appealed and lost. The base rent date for tenant's...
Landlord applied to the DHCR, seeking a determination that its Yonkers building was exempt from rent regulation based on substantial rehabilitation. The DRA ruled for landlord, who bought the building in 1989 when it...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent regulation due to a substantial rehabilitation completed during the 1980s. The DRA ruled against landlord, finding that it failed to...
Tenant in a 421-a building complained that landlord failed to offer him a rent-stabilized renewal lease. Tenant had lived in the apartment since 1976. The DRA ruled for tenant and directed landlord to offer a renewal...
In 2018, landlord applied to the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization based on a substantial rehabilitation of the premises performed in 1995.
Tenant complained to the DHCR in August 2019 of rent overcharge and fraudulent deregulation of his apartment. Landlord answered that the apartment was lawfully deregulated when the rent reached $2,500 in 2011, that...
Tenant filed a lease violation complaint with the DHCR, claiming that landlord refused to offer him a rent-stabilized renewal lease. Tenant pointed out that he had received rent-stabilized leases from landlord in the...
Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenant for nonpayment of rent based on tenant's failure to pay monthly rent of $3,200. Tenant, represented by counsel, claimed that the building didn't have a proper...
Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenant for nonpayment of rent owed in the amount of $1,800 per month. Tenant claimed that her apartment was improperly deregulated and that she'd been overcharged. Tenant later...
