HARASSMENT

Trial Needed to Determine if Landlord Harassed Tenants

April 26, 2024    

Tenants sued landlord in 2014, claiming that landlord harassed them in order to drive them out of their rent-stabilized apartments. Landlord asked the court to dismiss the harassment claims without trial. The court...

Subtenant Gets Preliminary Injunction Against Tenant She Claimed Harassed Her

February 25, 2024    

Subtenant sued rent-controlled tenant, and asked for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against tenant to stop claimed harassment and theft of subtenant's personal property. The subtenant...

HPD Reasonably Added Landlord's Building to CONH Pilot Program Building List

January 28, 2024    

Landlord brought an Article 78 court proceeding against HPD after HPD added landlord's 18-apartment building to the city's Certificates of No Harassment (CONH) Pilot Program Building List in 2022. Landlord...

Court Upholds HPD's Addition of Landlord's Building to CONH Pilot Program Building List

January 28, 2024    

Landlord brought an Article 78 court proceeding against HPD after HPD added landlord's eight-apartment building to the city's Certificates of No Harassment (CONH) Pilot Program Building List in 2022. Landlord...

Court Grants Preliminary Injunction Against Landlord in Case Claiming Harassment

September 24, 2023    

The DHCR and the NY State Attorney General sued landlord and its various entities in 2019, seeking an injunction to stop landlord from "persistently and flagrantly" violating the Rent Stabilization Law by...

New Landlord Bound by Loft Board's Harassment Order

August 28, 2023    

In 2006, the NYC Loft Board issued an Harassment Order, finding that the building's former landlord harassed tenants on various floors, by failing to maintain amenities and conduct repairs. The Loft Board found...

Former Tenant Claims Landlord Harassed Her to Move Out

June 28, 2023    

Landlord, the owner of an apartment he had rented to tenant since 2016, sued tenant after tenant moved out for breaching her residential lease. In response, tenant claimed harassment and sought the return of her...

Landlord Who Threatened Tenant Fined $10,000 for Harassment

June 27, 2023    

Tenant sued landlord in an HP proceeding and claimed harassment. The court ruled for tenant after hearing credible testimony that landlord came to her right after she called 311 to report lack of heat. Landlord told...

Tenant Can't Prove Harassment by Landlord Where Some Tenants Were Permitted to Smoke

March 24, 2023    

Tenant sued landlord in an HP proceeding, claiming that landlord had harassed her in violation of NYC Admin. Code Section 27-2005(d) by intending to cause her to move out. Tenant was 86 years old, suffered from COPD...

Landlord Who Didn't Provide Water to Tenant's Apartment for 3 Years Was Fined $9,000

January 30, 2023    

Tenant sued landlord in an HP proceeding, seeking correction of violations. Tenant testified that she hadn't had water in her apartment for more than three years, and that there was also an infestation of mice...

Landlord Shows No Reasonable Excuse for Default in HP Proceeding

November 24, 2022    

Tenant brought an HP proceeding seeking correction of violations and for a finding of harassment. In January 2022, the court issued a default order to restore heat. The order cited an HPD class "C"...

Landlord Must Pay Penalties After Trial Court Finds Landlord Harassed Tenant

November 23, 2022    

Tenant sued landlord in a housing court HP proceeding based on HPD violations and a harassment claim. After a trial, the court ruled for tenant based on findings that landlord had harassed her. Among other things,...