DOB issued two violations to landlord of a two-family dwelling for permitting its tenants to conduct short-term rentals of the premises. The NYC Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) affirmed the...
Tenant sued landlord for negligence after she slipped and fell on marble steps leading to the building's vestibule. Landlord asked the court to dismiss the case without trial, claiming that it neither created nor...
Tenant sued the City of New York and landlord Allen Affordable HDFC for damages resulting from personal injuries. Tenant slipped and fell on the wet interior stairs of the three-story apartment building. At the time...
Rent-stabilized tenant moved into the apartment in 1975. In 1984, tenant remained in the apartment when the building was converted to a non-eviction cooperative. When tenant died in 2008, the apartment owner gave...
Landlord previously sued to evict unregulated tenants. Tenants claimed that they were rent stabilized. Landlord argued that, in 1999, prior landlord expanded a previously existing unit to create new apartment for...
Landlord cooperative corporation sued to evict shareholder tenant for nonpayment of rent. The court granted tenant's request to dismiss the case, finding that landlord's rent demand didn't contain a good-...
Landlord sued to evict project-based Section 8 tenant for violating her lease because she continually refused to supply information concerning her household composition and eligibility factors. Tenant claimed that...
Landlord cooperative corporation sued shareholder tenant for violating her proprietary lease by keeping eight dogs and two cats in her apartment. This created noise and odors that other residents complained about....
During March 2018, while an apartment was vacant, landlord made various individual apartment improvements (IAIs) costing $57,000. Under the law in effect when the IAIs were completed, landlord was entitled to add a...
Tenants sued landlord and the building's management company for negligence after the building super molested their child. They claimed that hiring the super, who was a registered sex offender, was negligent....
Tenant sued landlord in an HP proceeding, seeking apartment repairs so that he could be restored to possession of the unit. Landlord and tenant signed a settlement agreement in court by which landlord agreed to have...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent in 2017. Other apartment occupants responded, claiming that they were the rightful tenants. They also claimed rent overcharge and that the monthly...
