The DRA partially granted landlord's MCI rent increase application for installation of a garage roof and related costs for the underground garage roof and surface parking lot. Landlord appealed and claimed, among...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a new intercom system. The DRA ruled for landlord. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant argued that the MCI was completed while the building received J-51 tax...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a boiler, windows, intercom, mailboxes, chimney, cornice, new roof, pointing, re-piping, sewer line, and painting/iron works. The DRA ruled against...
Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment in 2016. The DRA ruled against landlord because landlord's 2015 luxury deregulation application for the same...
Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-controlled apartment in 2011. The DRA dismissed landlord's application, finding that the building was receiving J-51 tax benefits at...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a reduction in building-wide services. Tenant claimed that a downstairs commercial medical office tenant treated the front entrance door as a private vestibule and gave entrance...
Landlord filed an application for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment in 2017. The DRA ruled for landlord based on tenant's failure to answer the DRA's notice to...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in connection with his parking space. The DRA found that landlord charged tenant the proper parking tax at a 10 percent rate on the March 2013 base rent date. And...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $24,000, including triple damages and after deducting refunds already made. Landlord appealed, claiming...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $1,430, including interest. Tenant appealed and lost. In response to the overcharge complaint, landlord...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and set the base date rent by using the default formula. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that the apartment was reconfigured into a duplex...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $138,204, including triple damages and interest. Landlord appealed and lost. Among other things, landlord...