HPD denied the application of prospective tenant for middle-income housing after finding that tenant had excessive household income and therefore didn't qualify. Tenant filed an Article 78 court appeal of HPD...
Plaintiff sued landlord for damages from injuries she received when she was bitten by a dog owned by tenants in a house owned by landlord. She also claimed that landlord was negligent. The court denied landlord's...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for keeping pit bull dogs in her apartment without landlord's permission. The court ruled for landlord based on tenant's failure to appear in court. The court later denied tenant...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for unlawfully subletting his apartment without landlord's permission. Tenant asked the court to dismiss the case. Landlord claimed that tenant had failed to comply...
Landlord sued to evict tenant. Landlord claimed that tenant was unregulated because the building contained fewer than six apartment units. Tenant argued that the building contained six apartments, including one in...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant in order to recover apartment for owner occupancy. The court granted tenant's request to dismiss the case. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord had offered tenant a...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant's daughter after tenant died. Tenant's daughter moved into the apartment in 1988. Tenant was hospitalized in June 2007, then moved into a nursing home where she...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. The trial court ruled for landlord in part but gave tenant an 85 percent rent abatement for the 19-month period in dispute. Landlord appealed and won, in part....
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for creating a nuisance by making incurable illegal alterations to the apartment. The trial court ruled against landlord, finding that it failed to prove that the...
Prior landlord sued to evict tenant. Landlord claimed that tenant's apartment wasn't rent regulated because the building contained fewer than six residential units. At trial, landlord claimed that the...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant, claiming that tenant violated a substantial obligation of his tenancy and created a nuisance by cooking 12 to 15 lunches six days week for sale outside of the building....
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant based on nonprimary residence. The court denied landlord's request for pretrial questioning and granted tenant's request to dismiss the case. Landlord appealed,...
