Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that landlord was entitled to a rent increase for individual apartment improvements (IAIs) when tenant moved in. Tenant...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of new windows, new main entry and vestibule doors, and a CCTV security system. The DRA ruled for landlord and deducted a commercial allocation based on...
Landlord of a rent-stabilized four-building apartment complex in Mount Vernon applied to the DHCR for permission to replace a swimming pool with other recreational facilities. The DRA ruled for landlord. Tenants...
Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to modify services by eliminating a fenced-in private rooftop patio connected to rent-stabilized tenant's apartment. The DRA ruled for landlord on condition that landlord...
After an appeals court ruled in 2015 that an SRO hotel occupant qualified as a permanent tenant under rent stabilization, landlord applied to the DHCR for a ruling to determine the unit's legal regulated rent. In...
Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to modify required services at its building by replacing an existing copper wire intercom system with a telephone-based intercom system. The DRA ruled for landlord. Tenant...
Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment in May 2019. The DRA dismissed the applications in August 2019 based on provisions of HSTPA that repealed...
Tenant claimed that she was rent stabilized and complained of rent overcharge in 2018. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment had been vacancy deregulated in 2006. Tenant appealed and lost. In...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in January 2019 of a reduction in services based on a gas service shut-off. Landlord answered that Con Ed had shut down the gas supply to tenant's apartment because...
Tenants of two adjoining buildings owned by landlord filed 16 individual service reduction complaints and two building-wide service reduction complaints with the DHCR. The complaints resulted from a DOB Vacate Order...
Rent-stabilized tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services. They claimed that landlord had removed a uniformed security guard and access to the building's backyard. The DRA ruled against tenants...
