NYS DIVISION OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL

Tenant's Apartment Was Vacancy Deregulated in 2002

June 16, 2022    

A New Rochelle tenant filed a complaint with the DHCR seeking a rent reduction based on a reduction in required services. In response, landlord argued that the apartment wasn't rent stabilized. The DRA then...

Building Is Exempt Due to Substantial Rehabilitation

June 14, 2022    

Prior landlord filed an application (Form RS-3 Application) with the DHCR in 2004 to determine whether its building was exempt from rent stabilization. In 2007, the DRA closed the case without action due to the prior...

DHCR Dismisses Ruling Request by Tenant with Issues Before DHCR in Other Proceedings

June 14, 2022    

Tenant asked the DHCR in January 2020 for an administrative determination regarding tenant's rent-regulated status and his apartment's legal rent. Landlord claimed that the building wasn't rent stabilized...

Replacing Elevator Operators with Hallway Attendant Wouldn't Adequately Modify Required Services

June 14, 2022    

Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to modify building-wide services for rent-regulated tenants in its building, by eliminating three elevator operators with shifts running from 4 p.m. to 12 a.m., and replacing...

Room Count Amended to Reflect Tenant's One-Room Apartment

June 13, 2022    

Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on elevator upgrading, elevator cab doors, and elevator motor room roof. The DRA ruled for landlord.

Tenant appealed, claiming that the room count for her apartment...

MCI Increase Granted for Electrical Upgrade, Including Meter Boxes

June 13, 2022    

The DHCR's Rent Administrator approved landlord's application for MCI rent hikes based on an electrical upgrade. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that the installation of seven meters included in...

New Chimney Installation Qualified as MCI

June 13, 2022    

Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a new chimney, boiler flue, and related work. The DRA ruled for landlord.

Tenants appealed and lost. Among other things, tenants claimed...

Landlord Transferred Cost of Heat and Hot Water Service to Tenant

May 25, 2022    

Tenant complained in 2017 that landlord failed to provide heat and hot water because it had converted the central boiler/hot water system to individual apartment-based heat/hot water systems in 2016. Landlord did so...

Health Care Aide Fails to Prove Succession Rights to Rent-Stabilized Tenant's Apartment

May 25, 2022    

An apartment occupant complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to offer her a rent-stabilized renewal lease after tenant died. She claimed she was the "daughter" and "primary health care attendant...

DHCR Won't Decide Tenant's Renewal Lease Complaint While Nonprimary Residence Case Is Pending

May 25, 2022    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained that landlord refused to renew his lease. Tenant attached a copy of landlord's lease nonrenewal notice based on its claim of tenant's nonprimary residence. The DRA ruled for...

Court Upholds DHCR Approval of MCI Rent Increases as Rational

May 25, 2022    

In 2017, the DHCR's Rent Administrator granted landlord's MCI rent increase application based on landlord's installation of a new roof, pointing, waterproofing, parapet, and sidewalk shed. Some tenants...

Tenant's Grandson Is First Successor Tenant

May 24, 2022    

The grandson of rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR that he had succession rights but that landlord refused to offer him a renewal lease after tenant died. In response, landlord claimed it did offer the...