Tenant asked the DHCR in 2020 for a ruling on whether she was rent stabilized. Tenant had lived in the building since 2011, claimed that the building was constructed prior to 1974, and currently contained a store and...
In separate DHCR proceedings, landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of three rent-stabilized apartments. In each case, the DRA issued an order of deregulation, which explained that the units each...
Building tenants sued landlord, claiming that they were rent stabilized and seeking correction of violations. When landlord bought the building in 2018, it contained eight residential units, including three SRO units...
Landlord filed three separate applications for high-rent/high-income deregulation of apartments in its building in 2018. In November 2019, the DRA dismissed all three applications based on the June 14, 2019,...
Tenant asked the DHCR to determine the rent-regulated status of her apartment. Tenant said landlord never gave her a lease but that she moved into the unit in September 2008 at a monthly rent of $800 under an...
Tenant asked the DHCR to rule on her apartment's rent regulatory status. Tenant claimed that she was rent stabilized. Landlord argued that the building was unregulated because, although it previously contained...
Tenant sued landlord for rent overcharge and fraudulent deregulation of his apartment. Tenant moved into the unit in 2014 under a one-year lease that included a deregulation notice. Tenant claimed that the...
Tenant filed an "AD" application and asked the DHCR to rule on whether he was subject to rent regulation. Landlord claimed that the building was legally converted to a five-unit apartment building in 1936...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of a reduction of services in his apartment. Landlord argued that tenant wasn't rent stabilized because the building contained only five apartments. The DRA then opened an "AD...
In 2017, tenant filed an administrative proceeding application with the DHCR, and sought a ruling on the rent-regulated status of her apartment. She had lived in the building for 43 years, and in the subject...
Landlord sued to evict a month-to-month tenant and claimed that tenant was unregulated because the building contained fewer than six apartments. Landlord had bought the building in bankruptcy in 2015, and it...
Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenants for nonpayment of rent. Tenants claimed that they were rent stabilized and asked the court to dismiss the case. They also claimed rent overcharge, and sought attorney's...
