November 2016
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Landlord Can't Increase Improperly Deregulated Rent
Did Faulty Elevator Impeding EMS Response Cause Tenant's Death?
Landlord Not Responsible for Pedestrian's Trip and Fall Over Garbage Bags
Wife Gets Succession Rights to Tenant's Rent-Controlled Apartment
DOB Violation for Cellar Apartment That Was Legal in 1938 Was in Error
Landlord Responsible for Exterminating Bedbugs in Tenants' Apartment
Was Landlord Responsible for Attack on Tenant by Other Tenant's Dog?
DHCR Can't Add Guideline Rent Increases After Setting Rent Using Default Method
Occupant Entitled to Hotel Stabilization Not Entitled to Attorney's Fees
Landlord Should Provide Surveillance Videos to Tenant, at Tenant's Expense
Landlord Proves Rent-Controlled Tenant Primarily Resided in South Carolina
Tenant's Husband Can't Get Mitchell-Lama Apartment
Tenant Entitled to Return of Commingled Security Deposit Despite Breach of Lease
Tenant Can Seek Attorney's Fees in Discontinued Case
DHCR Properly Increased Rent Reductions for Electric Meter Conversion
Resident Claims Shelter Violated Fair Housing Act by Failing to Provide Halal Meals
No Proof of Racial Discrimination Affecting Tenants Under Tax System
Tenant Claims Renewal Lease Improper Based on Inconsistencies with Rent Registrations
Landlord Not Responsible for Tenant's Injuries When Gurney Overturned
Tenants Claim DOF Policies Prevented Renewal of DRIE Benefits
DHCR Abused Its Discretion by Freezing Tenant's Rent Based on 1996 Rent Reduction Orders
Tenant Gets Attorney's Fees After Settling Disability-Related Claim
Landlord Can Start New Eviction Case for Owner Occupancy
Tenant Claimed Advance Rent Payment Was Made While He Traveled
Landlord Must Pay Fine for Harassing Rent-Stabilized Tenant
Illegal Basement Apartment Was Subject to Rent Stabilization
Tenant Gets Rent Abatement for Mice in Apartment
Tenants Claiming Improper Deregulation in J-51 Building Get Class Action Status
Tenant Can Review Rent History Records Going Back More Than Four Years
Rent Demand Sought More Than SCRIE Tenant's Share of Rent
Applicant's Discrimination Claims Against HUD Dismissed
Landlord Recertified HUD Tenancy After Sending Termination Notice
Settlement Agreement Incorrectly Identified Apartment
Family of Former NYCHA Resident Police Officer Gets Extra Time to Move Out
Court Finds That Electrical Surcharges Aren't Rent
Termination Notice Didn't Properly Make Claims for Illegally Subletting
Tenants Seek to Pierce Corporate Veil Against Landlord
Was Tenant's HUD Rent Properly Deregulated?
Apartment Conditions Warranted Rent Abatement
Nonpayment Proceeding Dismissed After Later Holdover Proceeding Settled
Landlord Not Responsible for Tenant's Slip and Fall
Landlord Didn't Add NYCHA as a Party to Nonpayment Case
Landlord Can't Seek Accelerated Rent After Tenant Evicted
Tenant's Daughter Can't Get Rent-Stabilized Apartment
Landlord Must Refund Tenant's Full Security Deposit
Landlord Fined for Not Filing Backflow Prevention Device Test Reports
Landlord Who Declined Translator at Hearing Can't Appeal Decision Based on Lack of Translator
Landlord Fined $32,000 for Adding Three Illegal SRO Units to Two-Family House
Once-a-Day Sweepings Not Sufficient to Keep Area in Front of Building Clean
Landlord Fined $10,000 for Maintaining Outdoor Advertising Sign on Residential Building
Zoning Law Prohibits Hanging Illuminated Peace Sign Out of Apartment Window
Landlord Can't Collect Rent Remaining on Lease After Tenant Moved Out
Rent-Stabilized Tenant's Estate Administrator Claims Succession Rights
NYCHA Can Evict Tenant for Chronic Nonpayment of Rent
Tenants Fail to Prove Need for 7A Administrator at Landlord's Building
Landlord Can't Evict Occupant Not Named in Proceeding
Landlord Responsible for Ceiling Collapse on Tenant
Trial Court Denied Landlord's Claim Against Lease Guarantor
Board Can Bar Co-op Tenants from Parking on Grass Outside Building
Elderly Tenant Didn't Understand Court Procedure
