Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DHCR ruled for tenant, imposed triple damages, and reduced the legal rent. Landlord filed an Article 78 court appeal, claiming that the DHCR's decision...
Tenant sued landlord for damages after he slipped and fell on ice in the driveway of landlord's house. The court denied landlord's request to dismiss the case without trial following pretrial questioning and...
Tenant's son sued landlord NYCHA for negligence after tenant was killed in the building. Tenant and her sons had moved from a rented house to a NYCHA apartment to get away from tenant's abusive fiance. The...
Landlord sued to evict tenant but asked the court for a discontinuance of the proceeding after pretrial discovery raised questions about the nature of tenant's occupancy. The court agreed and denied tenant's...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant based on tenant's loss of her Section 8 housing voucher due to her failure to recertify. Landlord claimed that tenant's failure to recertify for the Section 8...
Tenants sued landlord, seeking correction of elevator conditions at the building. The court ruled for tenants. Violation status reports showed three open ECB violations placed by DOB. Two of these were non-hazardous...
Landlord sued to evict tenant, based on claimed illegal conversion of the apartment by tenant's installation of partitions and creating added rooms in the unit. Landlord asked the court to direct tenant to pay...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent in 2018. Landlord and tenant signed a settlement agreement that gave landlord a money judgment for $8,301 in back rent. An eviction warrant was issued, and the...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. The trial court ruled for landlord, issued an eviction warrant, but delayed execution on the warrant until Jan. 1, 2021, based on the 2020 Tenant Safe Harbor Act...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for violating substantial obligations of his tenancy. Landlord claimed that tenant illegally sublet his apartment. Tenant asked the court to dismiss the case. He claimed...
Rent-stabilized tenants, who were black and the sole remaining occupants of landlord's 23-unit apartment building, sued landlord and the FDNY, claiming a hostile housing environment in violation of the Fair...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant and occupant "John Doe" based on tenant's nonpayment of rent. Tenant's son appeared in court, admitting that he was John Doe, that tenant died in...
