Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of a reduction in building-wide services based on defective elevator service. The DRA ruled against tenant on Nov. 22, 2019, after DHCR inspection on Nov. 12, 2019,...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a reduction in building-wide services in April 2019, claiming that there had been no gas service at the building since October 2018. The DRA notified landlord of tenant's...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained in 2020 of a reduction in building-wide services after landlord sent him a 30-day termination notice concerning his parking spot in the building's garage. The DRA ruled for...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant but found that no refund was owed because landlord already issued a refund to tenant in response to the complaint. The total overcharge...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2016. Tenant claimed that he had bought and installed an air conditioner in his apartment some time ago and that current landlord only recently started charging...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant in 2018 and found a total overcharge of $3,450, including triple damages. Since tenant owed $15,000 in rent arrears, no refund to tenant...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that landlord substantially increased her rent upon lease renewal. But the DRA found that...
Landlord applied separately for high-rent/high-income deregulation of 10 apartments in one building in May 2019. The DRA dismissed those applications in August 2019 based on provisions of HSTPA that repealed...
Tenants signed a two-year unregulated lease in August 2005 at an initial rent of $5,195 per month. Landlord had removed the apartment from rent stabilization in 2003 under high-rent vacancy deregulation provisions of...
Tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to offer him a rent-stabilized lease. Tenant had moved into the apartment in 1992 and never had a lease. His occupancy was conditioned on his employment with the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in 2017 of rent overcharge. He had moved into the apartment in 1987. While his vacancy lease rent was $383 per month, he had no written lease at this point and had paid $...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of his apartment. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment was high-rent vacancy-deregulated in 2000. Tenant appealed, based on a number...