Tenants filed a class action lawsuit against landlord in 2018 for rent overcharges. The court rejected landlord's request to limit pretrial questioning and document production to a four-year period and instead...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonprimary residence. The court denied tenant's request to dismiss the case without trial. Tenant appealed and won. Landlord's offer to renew tenant's...
Landlord sued to evict an unregulated tenant in 2019, claiming that tenant's lease had expired. In response, tenant claimed waiver and that her lease was still in effect. After holding a trial, the court ruled...
Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant, who was tenant's grandson, after rent-stabilized tenant died and his lease had expired. The first court date was June 22, 2023, and the case was adjourned by the court...
Landlord sued to evict the month-to-month tenant of an unregulated apartment in a two-family house after sending a 90-day termination notice. Landlord claimed that tenant owed rent and/or use and occupancy totalling...
Tenants in a J-51 building sued landlord in a class action, claiming rent overcharges and improper deregulation. The court ruled for tenants without trial and found that the legal regulated rents for their apartments...
Landlord sued to evict tenants, claiming they were deregulated. The court disagreed and dismissed landlord's claim. Landlord appealed and lost. Tenant and prior co-tenant had moved into the rent-stabilized...
Landlord sued tenant, seeking reimbursement of fines imposed on it by city agencies because tenant illegally sublet her apartment through Airbnb. Tenant asked the court to dismiss the case. She claimed that she had...
Shortly after HSTPA was enacted in June 2019, the Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP), Rent Stabilization Association of NYC (RSA), and several individual landlord entities sued the City of New York, the...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for permission to demolish a building containing rent-stabilized apartments and to proceed to evict tenants. The DHCR ruled against landlord, who then filed an Article 78 court appeal....
Tenant sued landlord for negligence in connection with injuries sustained in his apartment. The court denied landlord's request to dismiss the complaint. Tenant lived in and worked out of his apartment as a...
Tenant sued landlord for damages due to personal injuries suffered as the result of what tenant claimed was negligent hiring, retention, and supervision of security guards at the building. Tenant claimed that she was...
