Disabled tenant complained to the New York City Commission on Human Rights (CHR) that landlord failed to provide a reasonable accommodation, in violation of the city's Human Rights Law. Tenant was permanently...
Landlord sued to evict month-to-month tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant asked the court to dismiss the case. He claimed that as a matter of law and procedure a landlord couldn't bring a nonpayment proceeding...
Landlord sued to evict four tenants for nonpayment of rent. Landlord wasn't the building owner but was the prime tenant of the entire floor of the building where tenants' apartments were located. Tenants were...
New York's highest court ruled that landlord of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village apartment complexes had violated the Rent Stabilization Law by applying high-rent deregulation to rent-stabilized...
Landlord sued to evict SRO hotel tenant. The court ruled for tenant and dismissed the case, finding that tenant was a permanent tenant subject to hotel stabilization under Rent Stabilization Code Section 2520.6(j)....
Landlord sued to evict month-to-month tenant after sending a 30-day termination notice, claiming that tenant was unregulated. After starting the case, landlord asked the court for permission to amend its petition to...
The administrator of landlord's estate sued the real estate management company hired by the Public Administrator (PA) for a period ending in 2006, a former employee of that management company, and the DHCR. The...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant stopped paying rent in March 2011, and landlord claimed that $22,568 was outstanding to date and that tenant's monthly rent due was $1,...
Tenant sued cooperative corporation, seeking a declaration that he was a shareholder entitled to a proprietary lease. Tenant moved into the building in 1982. In 1984, the building converted to cooperative ownership....
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nuisance based on the illegal sale or distribution of narcotics. Landlord claimed that it had been notified by the Bronx D.A.'s office that a police search of the apartment had...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nuisance, claiming that tenant interfered with the comfort and safety of other tenants in the building by stuffing papers in the lobby door lock, smoking cigarettes...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant claimed a breach of the warranty of habitability and asked for a rent abatement. Tenant subpoenaed DHCR records and managing agent records from landlord,...
