DECREASE IN BUILDING SERVICES

Dirty Hallway Carpeting Not a Minor Condition

March 21, 2014    

Tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services based on dirty or soiled carpeting in the building's hallways. The DRA ruled for tenants, finding that landlord failed to maintain janitorial services,...

Building Entry Door Lock Was Defective

January 15, 2014    

Rent-stabilized tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents. Landlord appealed and lost. DHCR inspection showed that the building door lock was...

Landlord Changed Lock on Community Room Door

January 15, 2014    

Rent-stabilized tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services after landlord changed the lock to the door of the building's community room and required tenants to gain access through the building...

Building's Public Area Conditions Weren't Minor

January 15, 2014    

Rent-stabilized tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that the cited conditions were de...

Landlord Discontinued Electrical Inclusion Without DHCR Permission

January 14, 2014    

Sixty-nine tenants, rent stabilized and rent controlled, complained of a reduction in building-wide services because landlord discontinued electrical inclusion without prior permission from the DHCR. The DRA ruled...

Landlord Discontinued Security Guard Service

November 14, 2013    

Rent-stabilized tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services, claiming that security guard service at the building had been reduced and later eliminated. The building was an 81-unit senior citizen...

Landlord Discontinued Electrical Inclusion Without Permission

October 15, 2013    

Sixty-nine tenants, rent stabilized and rent controlled, complained of a reduction in building-wide services because landlord discontinued electrical inclusion without prior permission from the DHCR. The DRA ruled...

Intercom Audio Defective

October 15, 2013    

Rent-stabilized tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services based on defective intercom service. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents. Landlord appealed and lost. The DHCR's inspector...

Intercom Volume Level Too Low

October 12, 2013    

Tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services based on a number of conditions. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents. Landlord appealed, disputing many of the DRA's findings. The DHCR...

Landlord Discontinued Electrical Inclusion Without DHCR Approval

September 18, 2013    

(Decision submitted by David Hershey-Webb of the Manhattan law firm of Himmelstein, McConnell, Gribben, Donoghue & Joseph, attorneys for the tenants.)

Many Public Areas in Building Were Defective

July 12, 2013    

Rent-stabilized tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services based on defective windows in various public areas of the building. Tenants stated that windows in the hallways, staircase landings, and...

Landlord Took Away Tenant's Garage Parking Space

June 11, 2013    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a reduction in services based on landlord's unilateral termination of tenant's access to an assigned garage parking space. Tenant had occupied the parking space for 25...