HORIZONTAL MULTIPLE DWELLING

Separating HMD Buildings Under New Deed Didn't Remove Them from Rent Stabilization

April 24, 2024    

Landlord applied to the DHCR for a determination that tenant's apartment was exempt from rent regulation. The DRA ruled against landlord. Rent Stabilization Code Section 2520.11(d) provides that a building...

Two Adjoining Buildings Were Horizontal Multiple Dwelling

April 22, 2024    

Landlord applied to the DHCR for a ruling that its two adjoining buildings were exempt from rent stabilization because they shouldn't be considered a Horizontal Multiple Dwelling (HMD) that, combined, contained...

Tenant Claiming Apartment Part of Horizontal Multiple Dwelling May Inspect Building Systems

February 26, 2024    

Landlord sued to evict tenant from a four-family house based on nonpayment of rent. Landlord alleged that the apartment was unregulated, but tenant claimed that it was rent stabilized because the building was part of...

DHCR's Finding That Buildings Were an HMD Wasn't a Final Ruling Subject to Appeal

February 14, 2022    

Three tenants filed rent overcharge complaints with the DHCR and claimed that they were rent stabilized. According to landlord, the DRA denied these complaints, but then three new complaints were filed, which the DRA...

Two Buildings Constitute HMD Subject to Rent Stabilization

January 24, 2022    

Prior landlord asked the DHCR in 1996 to rule on whether its five-apartment building located at 11 West 84th Street in Manhattan was exempt from rent stabilization. Landlord's next-door building at 11 1/2 West...

Two Buildings Were Horizontal Multiple Dwelling Subject to Rent Stabilization

November 19, 2021    

The DHCR initiated an Administrative Determination (AD) proceeding to determine whether two buildings together formed a horizontal multiple dwelling (HMD) subject to rent stabilization. Landlord claimed that the...

Buildings Together Were Horizontal Multiple Dwelling Subject to Rent Stabilization

October 27, 2021    

Two tenants complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against them, finding that the building had only four apartments and therefore wasn't rent stabilized. Tenants appealed and won. Tenants claimed that the...

Tenants' Three-Unit Buildings Weren't Part of HMD

June 24, 2020    

In two separate proceedings, the DHCR ruled that Building A and Building C weren't subject to rent stabilization. Each building contained three apartments, but tenants in each building claimed that, together with...

Tenant in Horizontal Multiple Dwelling Was Rent Stabilized

May 22, 2020    

Landlord sued to evict month-to-month tenant. Tenant claimed he was rent stabilized because his building and the two buildings next door together formed a horizontal multiple dwelling (HMD). The court agreed that...

Tenant Is Rent Stabilized Absent Proof That Building Is HMD

March 23, 2020    

Tenant complained that new landlord failed to give her a rent-stabilized renewal lease and, instead, sent her a 30-day termination notice. Tenant claimed that her apartment was in a building that was part of a...

Building Was Part of Horizontal Multiple Dwelling

December 17, 2019    

Tenant complained of rent overcharge. Landlord argued that tenant wasn't subject to rent stabilization, based on the DHCR's separate 1996 order finding that the building had four apartments and therefore wasn...

Adjoining Buildings Had Enough Common Systems to Constitute HMD

August 23, 2018    

Tenant of a building containing four apartments claimed that she was rent stabilized because her building, together with the building next door, was a horizontal multiple dwelling containing six or more apartments...