Mitchell-Lama tenants filed an Article 78 court appeal of decisions by HPD to grant landlord’s applications for certificates authorizing eviction proceedings against tenants. The court ruled against tenants and...
Tenant filed an Article 78 appeal of the DHCR’s decision that her building wasn’t subject to rent stabilization. The court ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. Tenant didn’t file her Article...
Cooperative shareholder tenant sued landlord cooperative corporation, claiming breach of lease and breach of implied warranty of habitability. In 2007, a storm damaged the terrace that tenant shared with next-door...
Landlord sued to evict rent-controlled tenant’s daughter after tenant died. The daughter claimed succession rights. Tenant died in 2015 at the age of 99. Her daughter was 72 and claimed that she moved into the...
Tenant sued landlord, claiming that landlord was responsible for injuries he suffered when he jumped from a second-story fire escape platform at his apartment building in response to a fire at the building next door...
Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant’s rent-controlled apartment in 2006, after serving an Income Certification Form (ICF) on April 27, 2006. The DHCR ruled against landlord. The...
Tenant sued landlord, claiming that she was injured falling down a staircase in her apartment building. Landlord claimed that any defect in the staircase was trivial and the court granted landlord’s request to...
Landlord sued to evict Section 8 tenant for breach of her lease based on drug-related criminal activity by tenant’s son. Tenant asked the court to dismiss the case, claiming that the events in question occurred...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant’s lease rent was $850 per month and about half of that was paid directly to landlord by Cohoes Housing Authority under the Section 8 program. At some...
Landlord sued former tenant to recover five months’ unpaid rent. Tenant claimed breach of the warranty of habitability and asked for a setoff. Landlord presented documentation that violations were cured, and...
Former tenant sued landlord for the return of his security deposit after he moved out of the apartment. The court ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund the deposit, minus the sum of $55 to be withheld for...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonprimary residence. Landlord and tenant signed a settlement agreement in court. Tenant agreed to move out by Oct. 31, 2013. In return, landlord agreed to waive...
