Landlord cooperative corporation sued to evict shareholder tenants based on objectionable conduct. The court ruled for landlord. Tenant appealed and lost. Landlord co-op was entitled to terminate the proprietary...
Tenant sued landlord for negligence, claiming that he fell in his apartment because of the sloping condition of the hallway floor, which caused his desk chair to roll. The court granted landlord’s request to...
Landlord sued to evict tenant, claiming that she was unregulated. Tenant claimed that she was rent stabilized. The court granted landlord’s request to strike this defense and denied tenant’s request for...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant’s granddaughter after tenant died. At trial, landlord sought to introduce records from two hospitals showing tenant’s admissions in 2012 and 2013. The...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for performing unauthorized alterations in his apartment. The court granted tenant’s request to dismiss the case. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord’s claim was time-barred...
Rent-controlled tenant’s nephew claimed succession rights in a complaint to the DHCR. The DHCR ruled for the nephew, finding that he qualified as a remaining nontraditional family member. Landlord appealed and...
Landlord sued to evict rent-controlled tenant’s wife after tenant died. The wife claimed succession rights. The court ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost. At trial, the wife proved that she moved into...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nuisance, claiming that tenant intentionally chronically failed to pay rent in a timely manner in order to harass landlord. This was a violation of Rent Stabilization...
Former tenants sued landlord for return of a portion of their security deposit withheld after they moved out. Landlord returned $800 but kept $1000, claiming that tenants had removed lighting fixtures. The court...
Landlord sued to evict loft occupant, who claimed succession rights. The court ruled for landlord. Occupant appealed and lost. Occupant and his mother moved out of the loft in 1990 while occupant was still a child....
Tenant’s son requested succession rights to a NYCHA apartment after tenant died. NYCHA ruled against the son, who appealed and lost. NYCHA reasonably found that the son wasn’t a remaining family member...
Landlord appealed the DHCR’s decision that a rent increase resulting from landlord’s first-time painting of tenant’s rent-controlled apartment should be based on the highest estimate submitted by...
