Landlord sued to evict tenant after tenant's lease expired. Attorneys for both sides signed a settlement stipulation in court. In that agreement, tenant agreed to move out at the end of September 2022. Tenant...
Tenant sued landlord for negligence. She was injured when she fell down a darkened stairwell in her senior apartment complex during a power outage, and broke both of her arms. Landlord asked the court to dismiss the...
Landlord sued to evict tenant. Both the landlord's predicate notice and the petition referred to the premises as the "1st Flr." apartment although it was undisputed that tenant lived in the unit above...
Tenant sued landlord in an HP proceeding, seeking correction of violations. Tenant testified that she hadn't had water in her apartment for more than three years, and that there was also an infestation of mice...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. At some point while the case was pending, tenant moved out and surrendered possession of the apartment to landlord. Landlord then asked the court for a money...
Thirteen tenants sued landlord for rent overcharge and fraudulent deregulation of apartments in their building. In 2021, The court ruled for a number of the tenants, finding rent overcharges subject to the default...
Tenants sued landlord for fraud, breach of the warranty of habitability, and partial constructive eviction due to the building elevator being temporarily out of service. Tenants asked the court to rule in their favor...
Tenant sued landlord, claiming that she was rent stabilized and that the apartment had been illegally decontrolled in 2000 when landlord and a prior apartment occupant reached a "private agreement"...
Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to terminate the tenancy of the building's last rent-stabilized tenant in order to convert the entire building into a commercial premises to be used by a business that...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord started imposing a service charge for roof deck access at its building even though this previously was a free amenity provided to all building tenants. The...
The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) commenced a rent overcharge complaint against a building's new landlord on behalf of one tenant, after conducting an audit of the building's rents and finances in...
