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...
An 87-year-old rent-controlled tenant sued landlord in housing court, seeking an order to correct violations and to make landlord provide a reasonable accommodation in her apartment bathroom. Tenant said that she...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for creating a nuisance. Tenant asked the court to delay any processing of the case. Tenant argued that the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act (CEEFPA) stayed the...
In 2012, the DHCR's Rent Administrator determined that landlord's building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation that took place in the late 1980s. Tenants appealed, claiming...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a reduction in services. Tenant claimed that landlord removed a wall partition in tenant's apartment. This resulted in tenant's loss of a bedroom and decreased the number...
