Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in 2016 of rent overcharge based on a higher rent charged when tenant paid her monthly rent late. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $3,915,...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge prior to June 14, 2019. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $1,936, including triple damages and interest. Landlord appealed and won, in part....
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2018. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $13,204, including triple damages and interest. Landlord appealed and lost. Although landlord...
In 2022, landlord submitted annual apartment registration forms for one apartment to the DHCR, noting that the apartment hadn't previously been registered for the years 2009 to 2016, and that a separate DHCR...
Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to replace gas-cooking stoves with electric stoves in rent-regulated apartments at its building. The DRA ruled for landlord. Tenant appealed and won. Tenant argued that, because...
Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to modify services to tenant's apartment in order to seal the kitchen window of the apartment and install an exhaust system vent. The DRA ruled for landlord, provided that...
Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation. The DRA ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost. The DRA correctly found that the DOB...
Landlord applied for a ruling from the DHCR that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation. Landlord said that it bought the vacant building in 2021 and performed gut...
Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to a substantial rehabilitation landlord claimed was completed between 1978 and 1981. The DRA ruled against landlord.
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of new windows. The DRA ruled for landlord in part, but excluded the cost of new hallway windows based on a finding that those windows weren't fire rated...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a new boiler and burner. The installation involved a conversion of the building's heating system from #6 fuel oil to #2 fuel oil and gas....
(Decision submitted by Jessi Maduro, Esq., of the Manhattan law firm of Borah Goldstein Altschuler Nahins & Goidel, P.C., who represented the landlord.)
