Two tenants sued landlord seeking correction of violations and claiming harassment. DOB had issued a vacate order in 2022 after an electrical fire and tenants still hadn’t been restored to possession. Landlord also was reconfiguring apartments without tenants’ knowledge or DOB approval, and had removed significant square footage from their units. Under the Housing Maintenance […]

Tenant sued landlord in housing court in March 2025, claiming no heat and other conditions, including harassment. On the first court date, tenant stated that there had been no heat at the building since Feb. 22, 2025. Also, since filing the case, electricity was turned off at the building.

Rent-stabilized tenant sued landlord in 2017. She sought repairs, a rent abatement, and money damages for tortious interference with contract, property damage, harassment, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Landlord asked the court to dismiss the case without trial.

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 ruled for landlord in part. Since there was no mention in the court record of any allegations about landlord having participated in construction or trespass upon tenants' property, claims based on those allegations would be dismissed. But otherwise a trial was needed to determine the facts before deciding whether there had been harassment.

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 claimed that tenant also placed glue in the keyhole of the apartment front door. Subtenant also said that tenant gave apartment keys to friends and family members. The court ruled for subtenant, granting the preliminary relief sought.

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 sought removal of its building from the list and argued that HPD's decision was arbitrary and unreasonable, violated lawful procedures, and was based on an error of law. Landlord also claimed that HPD's action was unconstitutional and stated that HPD failed to notify landlord that its building was added to the list.

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 sought removal of its building from the list and argued that HPD's decision was arbitrary and unreasonable, violated lawful procedures, and was based on an error of law. The list was created after the Pilot Program was established by Local Law 1 of 2018 and was periodically amended.

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 illegally collecting fees and rents in excess of the legal regulated rents permitted for apartments in landlord's buildings.

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 that this was an effort by former landlord to compel those tenants to vacate their apartments and/or waive their Interim Multiple Dwelling rights. The Harassment Order further barred landlord from requesting its termination for at least three years.

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 security deposit and attorney's fees. Landlord asked the court to dismiss tenant's claims.