DECREASE IN BUILDING SERVICES

Rents Permanently Reduced for Loss of Garage Parking

May 16, 2013    

Rent-stabilized tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents, finding that landlord's demolition of parking garages that had previously been used...

Permanent Rent Reduction for Elimination of Storage Closets

May 14, 2013    

Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to eliminate hallway storage closets in a rent-stabilized building. The DRA ruled for landlord on condition that landlord permanently reduce tenants' rents by...

Landlord Didn't Restore Hallway Carpets to Clean Condition

April 16, 2013    

Rent-stabilized tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents. Landlord later sought the restoration of rents based on the claimed restoration of...

Landlord Replaced Overnight Doorman with Video Camera

April 15, 2013    

Rent-stabilized tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services when landlord discontinued doorman service from midnight to 7 a.m. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents. Landlord appealed and...

Loss of Backyard Access Not Minor Condition

March 12, 2013    

Rent-stabilized tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services after landlord fenced off and gated a portion of the rear backyard to which they previously had access. The DRA ruled for tenants and...

Garage Ceiling Leaked

February 7, 2013    

Tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents. Inspection showed that the first-floor garage ceiling above one parking space was leak-damaged and that...

Intercom Not Working in Some Apartments

February 7, 2013    

Tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services. The DRA ruled for tenants in part and reduced the rents of 15 of the 46 tenants based on a defective bell/buzzer/intercom system. Landlord appealed,...

Intercom Directory Out of Date

February 7, 2013    

Tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services based on various conditions. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents based on an outdated intercom directory and damaged flagstone path to the...

Door-to-Door Garbage Collection Discontinued

February 7, 2013    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a reduction in building-wide services after floor-by-floor garbage collection was discontinued. The DRA ruled for tenant and reduced his rent. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord...

DOHMH Ruling Didn't Bar Rent Reduction

January 14, 2013    

Rent-stabilized tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents based on findings of a poorly maintained garbage storage area and inoperative doorbells...

Building Conditions Weren't Minor

December 12, 2012    

Tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents. Landlord appealed, claiming that the conditions cited were minor and didn't warrant a rent reduction...

Landlord Discontinued Community Room

December 11, 2012    

Tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services based on landlord's discontinuance of the building's community room. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents. Landlord appealed and lost....