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 The DRA dismissed the applications in August 2019 based on provisions of HSTPA that repealed...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...
Rent-stabilized tenants complained to the DHCR of a reduction in building-wide services. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents, based on conditions that included mailbox issues. Landlord later applied for...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a reduction in services based on multiple apartment defects. Tenant claimed that the kitchen cabinets were broken; the kitchen ceiling leaked; the bathroom shower knobs, wall,...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2017, claiming that prior landlord committed rent fraud. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. At the outset, the DHCR noted that the DRA...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant in 2017 and ordered landlord to refund $16,043, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that tenant...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $692, including triple damages. Tenant appealed and lost. After tenant filed his PAR, the HSTPA was...
The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) filed a rent overcharge complaint against landlord in 2017 after conducting a rent audit. The DRA found an overcharge and ordered landlord to refund tenant $19,905,...
Tenant in a rent-stabilized building subject to J-51 tax benefits complained to the DHCR in October 2012 of rent overcharge. Landlord claimed that it acknowledged the overcharge in accordance with the 2009 ...
