Landlord sued to evict tenant for chronic nonpayment of rent. Landlord and tenant signed a settlement agreement in court that put tenant on probation. Tenant then failed to pay rent on time in June 2015 and didn'...
Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenant when tenant's lease expired. Tenant claimed that he was rent stabilized. The court ruled for tenant and dismissed the case. Landlord appealed and lost. Tenant showed that...
Two tenants sued their building's landlord, claiming that they were improperly given unregulated leases when they moved into the building in 1999 and 2008 respectively. The building received J-51 benefits between...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. Landlord and tenant signed a settlement agreement in court, but the court later granted eviction of tenant. The court denied tenant's second request post-...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant's son after tenant died in January 2015. The son claimed succession rights, and landlord asked for pretrial documentation production. The court ruled for landlord in...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonprimary residence when tenant's two-year renewal lease expired in 2017. Tenant asked the court to dismiss the case because landlord never gave him a vacancy...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant claimed breach of the warranty of habitability. Landlord claimed that tenant had a commercial lease. The court ruled for landlord. Tenant appealed, and the...
Landlord sued to evict Section 8 tenant for creating a nuisance. Landlord claimed that tenant held frequent, loud parties where people engaged in antisocial, destructive, and illegal conduct in the building hallways...
Landlord sued former tenant for breach of contract. Landlord claimed that tenant moved out with 11 months remaining on a two-year lease. Tenant claimed that he had a one-year lease, with the possibility of extending...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DHCR ruled for tenant and applied its default formula to set the base date rent. Landlord filed an Article 78 court appeal and lost. Landlord didn't...
HPD terminated tenant's Section 8 rent subsidy after finding that a member of tenant's household engaged in drug-related criminal activity from the apartment and that tenant was aware of it. Tenant then filed...
Tenant's mother sued landlord for negligence after she slipped and fell on an exterior concrete stairway of a two-family house. She said that the handrail moved, causing her to fall as she walked down the stairs...
