NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL

Tenant Gets 35 Percent Rent Abatement for Water Damage

June 16, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent,...

Successor Tenant Not Responsible for Prior Tenant’s Rent Arrears

June 16, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant after tenant died...

Co-op Waited Too Long to Enforce Cohabitation Provision

June 15, 2015    

Landlord cooperative corporation sued to evict tenant shareholders. Landlord claimed that tenants violated their proprietary lease by permitting their children to live in the apartment while not residing with them....

Eviction Case Based on Illegal Apartment Activity Was Untimely

May 19, 2015    

In January 2014, Landord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for using the apartment for an illegal trade or business. Landlord claimed that on Sept. 21, 2011, tenant possessed and maintained loaded firearms and...

Landlord Must Name Tenant in Eviction Case Against Remaining Apartment Occupants

April 20, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict apartment occupants. Tenant had moved out in 2009, and landlord claimed that occupants were merely tenant's licensees. Occupants claimed that tenant hadn't surrendered the apartment and...

Landlords Can Sue NYCHA for Failing to Process Rent Increase Applications

April 20, 2015    

Nineteen landlords sued NYCHA. In their Article 78 mandamus proceeding, they claimed that NYCHA arbitrarily delayed or refused to even acknowledge receipt of, routine requests for rent increases available under the...

NYCHA Must Give Tenant's Grandson New Hearing on Succession Claim

April 20, 2015    

Tenant's grandson claimed succession rights to tenant's NYCHA apartment. NYCHA ruled against the grandson, who then filed an Article 78 appeal. NYCHA had ruled after a hearing that the grandson failed to...

Tenant Proves She Was Rent Controlled

April 20, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict tenant from a building containing fewer than six apartments. Landlord claimed that tenant was unregulated. Tenant claimed that she was rent controlled and had lived in the apartment since 1968...

Jury Waiver Lease Clause Applied to Tenant and Daughter

April 20, 2015    

Co-op shareholder tenant, along with her husband and daughter, sued landlord cooperative corporation, claiming disability discrimination. Tenant's husband bought the apartment with her in 2001, and their daughter...

Tenant Agreed to Vacate in Exchange for Reduced Attorney's Fees Award

April 20, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant claimed rent overcharge. After lengthy proceedings, the court ruled for landlord, and landlord's request for attorney's fees was...

Tenant's Son Gets HUD Section 8 Apartment

April 20, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict tenant's son from HUD project-based Section 8 apartment after tenant died. The son claimed succession rights, and the court ruled in his favor. The son, his sister, and a neighbor all...

Tenants' Cluttered Apartment Prevented Repairs

April 20, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict HUD tenants for failure to provide access for landlord to make repairs. Landlord claimed that tenants' apartment was so cluttered with boxes, bags, and clothes that it prevented repairs and...