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...
Landlord sued to evict hotel-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant claimed rent overcharge. The court ruled for landlord without a trial. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant stopped paying rent in October...
The DHCR determined that tenant was rent stabilized because the apartment building he lived in contained at least six apartments before 1974. Landlord filed an Article 78 petition, claiming that the DHCR's...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for committing a nuisance. The court ruled for landlord. Tenant appealed and lost. Landlord proved at trial that tenant engaged over a period of years in a pattern of objectionable...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. The court ruled for landlord in part but gave tenant a rent abatement of $808 and awarded landlord the net sum of $1,834. Landlord appealed and lost. The court...
Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenant. Tenant claimed that she was rent stabilized. The court ruled for landlord without a trial. Tenant appealed, and the case was reopened. There were issues of fact as to...
Landlord sued to evict month-to-month tenant. Tenant claimed that she was rent stabilized. The court ruled for tenant and dismissed the case. Tenant claimed that there were six apartments in the pre-war building when...
Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenant for nonpayment of rent. The parties signed a settlement agreement in court. Tenant agreed to pay the $8,000 rent arrears by a certain date or be evicted. Tenant was later...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant and apartment occupant after landlord discovered that tenant had moved out of the apartment. The occupant claimed succession rights. The court ruled against occupant, who...
Tenant sued landlord for breach of the warranty of habitability. The court ruled for tenant and awarded her damages equal to a refund of 35 months of paid rent. Landlord appealed, and the case was reopened. Tenant...
