Rent-stabilized tenants, a married couple, filed a lease violation complaint with DHCR. They claimed that landlord didn't include the wife's name in its 2021 renewal lease offer and that it failed to deduct a...
Tenant filed a lease violation complaint with the DHCR. He claimed that the renewal lease landlord offered, to start on May 1, 2019, wasn't offered on the same terms and conditions as the expiring lease. Tenant...
Tenant sought a ruling that his apartment had been improperly deregulated. The DRA ruled for tenant, and landlord appealed and lost. Landlord then filed an Article 78 court appeal. The DHCR agreed to take the case...
Tenant filed an application with the DHCR for an administrative determination (AD), claiming rights as a first successor tenant to his parents' rent-controlled apartment. Tenant said that his parents signed a...
The DHCR's Rent Administrator started a proceeding after finding that landlord failed to register its building as rent stabilized for 2018. The DRA made this determination based on review of NYC DOF records...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a wheelchair/accessibility ramp. The DRA ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost. Since 2016, the DHCR had granted MCI applications for wheelchair/...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a new boiler. The DRA ruled for landlord in part, denying any increase for costs associated with engineering, installation of bypass equipment, and...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on pointing and building facade work. The DRA ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost. The DRA found that a prior MCI rent hike was granted in 2001 for exterior...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on rewiring and installation of a security camera system. The DRA ruled for landlord. Tenants appealed and lost. They claimed that the security camera system was landlord...
The DHCR's DRA granted landlord's application for MCI rent hikes based on the installation of gas piping. Tenants appealed and lost. They claimed that the gas piping was installed in connection with apartment...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a parapet, as well as brick and structural steel work for an exterior restoration project. The DRA ruled for landlord in part, including the cost of...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a new roof, building facade, and sidewalk bridge set up during the work. The DRA ruled for landlord. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that he...
