Landlord sued attorneys who represented a tenant in its building that landlord had recently acquired. Landlord claimed that the attorneys made statements to media concerning landlord's alleged harassment of the...
Tenants signed a two-year unregulated lease in August 2005 at an initial rent of $5,195 per month. Landlord had removed the apartment from rent stabilization in 2003 under high-rent vacancy deregulation provisions of...
Tenant sued landlord in an HP proceeding. Landlord failed to appear in court, and after inquest, the court ruled that landlord was in civil contempt of the court's January 2022 default order, had engaged in...
Cooperative shareholder tenants sued landlord co-op corporation in an HP proceeding, claiming that there were hazardous violations based on mold conditions in their apartments. They further claimed the condition was...
A Mount Vernon tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant and awarded him attorney's fees. Landlord appealed and argued that, because tenant was represented by Legal Services of Hudson Valley...
Tenant complained of improper apartment deregulation and rent overcharge. Tenant moved into the apartment in 2012 at an initial rent of $2,100 per month. The building was subject to a J-51 tax benefit from July 1,...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for a lease violation based on tenant's failure to install rugs and padding in his apartment, which created noise that disturbed other tenants. Landlord later asked the court's...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for illegal subletting. The court ruled against landlord, finding that tenant complied with Real Property Law (RPL) Section 226-b(2) by requesting to sublet her apartment...
HomeAway.com, Inc., a "home-sharing platform" that covered short-term rental of apartments in NYC, sued the City of New York in 2018 to challenge a new local law that required companies such as HomeAway and...
Former tenant sued landlord for return of apartment security deposit and claimed that landlord improperly commingled the security deposit in violation of General Obligations Law (GOL) Section 7-103. Landlord, in turn...
Landlord sued to evict tenant but asked the court for a discontinuance of the proceeding after pretrial discovery raised questions about the nature of tenant's occupancy. The court agreed and denied tenant's...
(Decision submitted by Ronald S. Languedoc, Esq. of the Manhattan law firm of Himmelstein, McConnell, Gribben, Donoghue & Joseph LLP, attorneys for the tenants.)
