NEW YORK SUPPLEMENT - 2ND SERIES - LEGAL REPORTER

NYCHA Not Responsible for Exterminator's Attack on Tenant's Daughter

August 9, 2013    

Tenant sued NYCHA and its former exterminator, claiming that the exterminator had sexually assaulted her developmentally disabled daughter. Tenant claimed that NYCHA was responsible for the exterminator's conduct...

Trial Needed to Determine if Subtenant Had Succession Rights

August 7, 2013    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant Cogle for unauthorized subletting. One of the apartment occupants, Thornhill, claimed that she had succession rights from a prior rent-stabilized tenant, Jackson....

Rent Demand Signed by Managing Agent Was Valid

August 7, 2013    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. The trial court ruled for landlord and found that tenant owed $11,680. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant then appealed to a higher court and lost...

Landlord Not Responsible for Attack on Tenant's Visitor

August 7, 2013    

Tenant's niece sued landlord NYCHA, claiming that she was injured in an attack in the building's elevator on her way to visit tenant at tenant's seventh-floor apartment. The niece lived in a different...

Co-op's Rules Didn't Allow Charge Against Shareholder for Illegal Subletting

August 7, 2013    

Landlord cooperative corporation assessed a $3,000 fee on tenant shareholder for illegally subletting her co-op apartment, after other shareholders complained that tenant no longer lived in the apartment and that the...

Security Deposit Refund Offset by Cost of Damage

August 7, 2013    

Former tenant sued landlord for $10,700, claiming that she had incurred exterminator expenses to combat a rodent and bedbug infestation in her apartment. She also sought the recovery of her security deposit. Landlord...

Landlord Responsible for Tenant's Slip and Fall on Wet Stairway

August 6, 2013    

Tenant sued landlord after he slipped and fell on a wet substance he claimed was urine on the apartment building's stairway. Landlord asked the court to dismiss the case without a trial, claiming that it didn...

New Trial Needed on Wife's Claim to Apartment

August 6, 2013    

Landlord sued to evict the wife of deceased rent-controlled tenant. She claimed succession rights, but landlord claimed that she had been absent from the apartment for a portion of the required two-year occupancy...

Landlord Entitled to Pretrial Questioning

August 6, 2013    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant's grandson after tenant moved out of the apartment. The grandson claimed succession rights. The court granted landlord's request for permission to conduct...

Trial Needed on Son's Claim to Rent-Controlled Apartment

August 6, 2013    

Landlord sued to evict the son of a deceased rent-controlled tenant. The son claimed succession rights to the apartment and asked the court to dismiss the case without a trial. The court ruled against tenant's...

Co-op Tenant Claims She Needs Dog to Treat Disability

August 6, 2013    

Landlord cooperative corporation sued to evict tenant shareholder for keeping a dog in her apartment in violation of tenant's lease. Landlord asked the court to rule on the case without a trial. Tenant asked the...

Effective Date of MCI Rent Hike Based on Landlord's Delay

August 6, 2013    

The DHCR granted landlord's application for MCI rent hikes. Landlord, which was the managing agent of the holder of unsold shares in a co-op building, filed an Article 78 appeal, challenging the effective date of...