Apartment building tenants sued landlord in 2018 for a declaration that they were rent stabilized and for refund of rent overcharges. The tenants asked the court to certify building tenants as a class based on their...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. In March 2023, the parties signed a settlement agreement in court by which tenant agreed to pay back rent after landlord made certain repairs. In July 2023,...
Tenant sued landlord, claiming that landlord had fraudulently raised his apartment rent in January 2001 to remove the unit from rent stabilization through vacancy deregulation. Tenant also claimed that there was a...
The City of New York sued landlord in 2020, seeking abatement of a public nuisance by making building repairs. The court ruled for the city and directed landlord to make permanent repairs. Landlord asked the court to...
Landlord sued to evict a month-to-month tenant. Tenant asked the court to dismiss the case. He claimed that he had a renewal lease agreement and wasn't a month-to-month tenant. Tenant submitted a fully...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent for periods between October 2019 and January 2024. Landlord claimed that tenant owed $124,746. Tenant claimed that landlord was asking for back rent at an...
The family of a plaintiff child, who had visited tenants at a one-family house tenants rented, sued tenants and landlord after the child was injured by tenants' dog. The plaintiff claimed that landlord was...
Petitioner began leasing a lot owned by the City of New York on a month-to-month basis in 1991. Starting in 2005, petitioner used the lot as a green space/sculpture garden. After the city identified the lot as a...
NYCHA tenant filed an Article 78 court appeal of NYCHA's decision, made after a hearing, that tenant was ineligible to continue her occupancy of an apartment in a public housing development based on...
Landlord sued to evict tenants and claimed that the apartment had been high-rent vacancy deregulated. Tenants claimed that they were rent stabilized and asked the court for permission to conduct pre-trial ...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of improper deregulation of his apartment and rent overcharge. The DHCR ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment had been vacancy deregulated more than six years before the base...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2016. The DHCR ruled for tenant. A DHCR rent reduction order had been in effect since 1996. So, the rent freeze resulting from that order remained...
