An unregulated tenant complained of rent overcharge and fraudulent deregulation in 2017. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $64,390, including interest. Landlord appealed to the DHCR and lost (...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR that installation of gas piping in her living room reduced required services because the installation was done in an unworkmanlike manner and reduced her total apartment...
The niece of a former Mitchell-Lama shareholder tenant claimed succession rights to former tenant's apartment after the tenant moved out. The DHCR ruled against the niece, who then filed an Article 78 court...
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...
Landlords sued the City of New York, the DHCR, and the NYC Rent Guidelines Board in federal court soon after the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (HSTPA) was enacted to amend the Rent Stabilization...
Tenant sued landlord in an HP proceeding. Landlord failed to appear in court, and after inquest, the court ruled that landlord was in civil contempt of the court's January 2022 default order, had engaged in...
Shareholder tenant sued landlord cooperative corporation and asked the court to set aside and declare void and unenforceable notices of termination of her proprietary lease that were issued by landlord in 2021 as...
Tenant sued landlord, the ground-floor commercial tenant, and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in federal court. Tenant claimed that the floor of his second-floor apartment was damaged and his mail stolen when...
The co-op shareholder tenant of two apartments in a building sued landlord cooperative corporation and its board of directors, claiming breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duties. Tenant claimed that the co-op...
Suffolk County tenant sued landlord after he was injured in landlord's building due to a defect in the interior flooring. Landlord asked the court to dismiss the case, claiming that it was an out-of-possession...
Tenant sued landlord in June 2020 for breach of the warranty of habitability, breach of the lease, constructive eviction, negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Tenant sought monetary...
Landlord, the owner of a condominium unit, sued tenant after tenant broke the lease and moved out of the apartment in December 2018. Tenant's one-year lease term started in August 2018 at a monthly rent of $19,...
