Fire Escape Extension Doesn't Qualify

Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on a number of improvements, including the installation of a fire escape. The DRA ruled that landlord couldn't collect a rent increase for the fire escape. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord hadn't completely replaced the fire escape. Instead, landlord had installed a new section of the fire escape to extend it from the enclosed backyard through the basement to the street. So landlord wasn't entitled to any MCI increase for this work.

26 E. Broadway: DHCR Adm. Rev. Dckt. No. NI430018RO (10/30/00) [2-pg. doc.]