Partial Lintel Replacement Qualifies as MCI

The DRA granted landlord's application for MCI rent hikes based on pointing and lintel replacement. Tenants appealed and lost. Tenants claimed that the lintels were only partially replaced. But the work qualified as work related to and performed in connection with the pointing MCI. Tenants also complained that the lintels benefitted the building's commercial tenants, but the DRA had allocated part of the cost to commercial tenants. Tenants also claimed that there were hazardous violations at the building, but landlord had shown the DRA that any "C" violations had been cleared.

3657 Broadway: DHCR Adm. Rev. Docket No. VD430074RT (5/30/13) [1-pg. doc.]