Exterior Restoration Work Qualified as MCI

The DRA granted landlord’s application for MCI rent hikes based on exterior restoration work. Tenants appealed and lost. Tenants claimed that landlord’s cost was based on a lump-sum contract and included MCI-ineligible work. But it was DHCR policy that a building-wide comprehensive exterior renovation, which could include pointing, waterproofing, masonry, parapets, lintels, cornices, etc., qualified as an MCI. Landlord’s work qualified since it was performed as a single unified project for the purpose of making the building structurally sound and watertight.

250 Riverside Drive: DHCR Adm. Rev. Docket No. YF430042RT (8/16/12) [3-pg. doc.]