Five landlords sued the New York State Attorney General (AG) in federal court in February 2021, challenging the constitutionality of Part A of the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2020 (...
Rent-stabilized tenants in a 421-a building sued landlord claiming that landlord registered illusory initial rents for apartments in the building by utilizing rent concessions. Typically, a lease gave new tenant a...
Rent-stabilized tenant sued landlord, claiming willful refusal to fix a damaged roof and repeated water leaks into her apartment and the adjoining corridor. Tenant claimed that these acts resulted in intentional...
Residents of an interim multiple dwelling (IMD) subject to the NYC Loft Law brought an HP proceeding against landlord in housing court seeking an order to correct certain building conditions, and an injunction...
Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenant in January 2019 after tenant's lease expired. Tenant claimed that she was rent stabilized and that the apartment was improperly deregulated when she moved in. The court...
Landlord sued former tenant for rent owed after tenant broke her lease and moved out. Landlord had rented the apartment to tenant in December 2019 at a monthly rent of $12,500. The lease gave tenant a rent concession...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. Landlord and tenant signed a settlement agreement in court. Tenant agreed to pay $18,358 in back rent, and landlord agreed to make repairs. When tenant failed to...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nuisance and for violating his lease by illegally subletting his apartment for short-term rentals at excessive rates and without landlord's knowledge or consent. Landlord also...
An African-American tenant sued landlord of Suffolk County apartment complex in federal court in 2014 after a three-year "campaign of racial harassment, abuse, and threats" by tenant's white neighbor....
Landlords and real estate organizations sued the DHCR in 2014 to challenge the agency's adoption of 2014 amendments to the Rent Stabilization Code (2014 Amendments) as unconstitutional. Among other things,...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for creating a nuisance and illegally subletting his apartment through short-term rentals. Landlord had received a DOB violation notice based on tenant's short-term...
Displaced tenants sued landlord, seeking correction of conditions at their building. DOB had issued a vacate order in November 2020 due to a fire. Landlord raised a number of defenses, and tenants asked the court to...
