Landlord owned a five-building complex of interim multiple dwellings (IMDs) located in a single zoning lot in the Special Clinton District. All of the buildings were subject to the NYC Loft Law. Landlord sought to...
Landlord sought to redevelop a 60-unit affordable housing community for seniors. The 1957 deed from the City of Rochester to prior landlord contained several restrictive covenants, including a provision that any...
Landlord brought five separate eviction proceedings against five tenants in the same building. Landlord claimed that the tenants were unregulated because the building contained fewer than six residential units. The...
Landlord sued to evict tenant, claiming that tenant's apartment was exempt from rent stabilization due to high-rent vacancy. Tenant claimed that he was rent stabilized. The court ruled against tenant, who...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent in 2018. When the parties first appeared, it was shown that tenant was diagnosed as bipolar. Adult Protective Services then intervened, and the court appointed a...
Tenant sued landlord on behalf of her children, claiming that they were bitten by bedbugs in their apartment. Among other things, tenant claimed constructive eviction, intentional infliction of emotional distress,...
Tenants sued landlord, claiming breach of the warranty of habitability and violations of federal and state housing discrimination laws. The court granted landlord's request to dismiss the case without trial....
Landlord filed an Article 78 court appeal of a 2018 DHCR decision that tenant's apartment was rent stabilized. The DHCR also calculated a rent overcharge by using its "bridge-the-gap" formula. Landlord...
Landlord sued to evict loft tenant in 2018, claiming that tenant created a nuisance. Landlord claimed that, through gross negligence, tenant substantially damaged the building and interfered with the comfort and...
Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenants' rent-stabilized apartment in 2018. The DRA issued a deregulation order for landlord in December 2018 based on tenants' admission that their...
Landlord filed an Article 78 petition against the DHCR, seeking judicial review of the DHCR's ruling that a tenant was overcharged. The tenant asked permission to intervene in the Article 78 proceeding. Although...
Landlord sued to evict tenant in January 2021, claiming that tenant created a nuisance and that tenant's conduct corresponded to an exception to any stay of eviction under the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and...
