Tenant in a building receiving 421-a tax benefits sued landlord, claiming rent overcharge and violations of the Rent Stabilization Law. Tenant also sought to make the case a class action. The court denied landlord...
Tenants sued landlord in March 2019, claiming improper apartment deregulation and wilful rent overcharge. They moved into the apartment in 2017 under a non-regulated lease at $4,000 per month. DHCR rent registration...
Tenant filed an Article 78 court appeal of an HPD decision that tenant wasn't using her Mitchell-Lama apartment as her primary residence, and granting landlord a certificate of eviction. The court transferred the...
Former tenants sued landlord, seeking recovery of double the amount of their security deposit after they moved out. Tenants claimed that they gave landlord written notice of their vacatur on July 15, 2020, after...
Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant after serving a 10-day notice to quit, even though the occupant had moved into the apartment under a fully executed one-year rent-stabilized lease. Landlord claimed that...
Landlord sued to evict two apartment occupants who remained in the apartment after prior rent-stabilized tenants moved out. Landlord claimed that their license to remain in the apartment was now terminated. The...
Tenant sued landlord and its washing machine vendor for negligence after she was injured in a slip-and-fall in the building's laundry room. Tenant claimed that the accident was the result of a chronic...
Tenant, who worked as a psychiatrist in his home office, was conducting a patient session when the cousin of his former domestic partner barged into his apartment and demanded certain financial documents required for...
Landlord filed an Article 78 court appeal of a DHCR decision that denied permission to modify building-wide services for rent-regulated tenants in its building, by eliminating three elevator operators with shifts...
Landlord filed an Article 78 court appeal of a DHCR decision finding that garage parking at landlord's building was a required ancillary service under rent stabilization. Landlord claimed that the parking garage...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant claimed that landlord breached the warranty of habitability and asked the court for permission to conduct discovery. The court ruled for tenant in part,...
Landlord sued to evict "John Doe" and "Jane Doe," who occupied tenant's apartment after tenant died. The occupants asked the court to dismiss the case because it hadn't named the tenant...
