Tenant sued landlord for rent overcharge and improper deregulation of his rent-stabilized apartment. Tenant moved into the unit in November 2007 and paid $2,250 per month in rent at all times since then. Landlord...
Landlord sued to evict tenant and claimed that tenant wasn't subject to rent stabilization because the building was constructed or substantially rehabilitated after Jan. 1, 1974. In response, tenant claimed that...
In 2016, landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling on whether tenant's apartment was rent stabilized. Landlord claimed that, after April 1993, prior landlord increased the dimensions of the apartment by adding square...
Landlord asked the DHCR in 2016 for a ruling on the legal regulated rent for an apartment. Landlord claimed that the apartment occupant had been the building's janitor until his employment was terminated in...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for permission to amend 2008 rent registrations for two apartments at its building. The DRA ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that: (a) by April 2018, two...
Landlord sued to evict tenant, claiming that tenant was unregulated because the apartment building contained less than six residential units. Tenant claimed that he was rent stabilized. The building was constructed...
A group of landlords owning rent-stabilized buildings in New York City sued the city, the NYC Rent Guidelines Board, and the DHCR in federal court. They claimed that the HSTPA effected, both on its face and as-...
Landlord applied to the DHCR on May 29, 2018, for a ruling that tenant's rent-stabilized apartment was subject to high-rent/high-income deregulation. On Nov. 13, 2019, the DRA denied landlord's...
Tenant filed an application with the DHCR in 2015, asking for a ruling on his SRO unit's regulatory status and legal regulated rent (LRR). In 2019, the DRA found that the unit was rent stabilized and that the...
The DHCR's DRA initiated a proceeding in 2019 after finding that landlord failed to register its building as rent stabilized for 2018 although Dept. of Finance (DOF) records show that the building received J-51...
Shortly after HSTPA was enacted in June 2019, the Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP), Rent Stabilization Association of NYC (RSA), and several individual landlord entities sued the City of New York, the...
Landlords sued the City of New York, the DHCR, and the NYC Rent Guidelines Board in federal court soon after the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (HSTPA) was enacted to amend the Rent Stabilization...
