Landlord sued to evict month-to-month tenant and apartment occupants after serving a 90-day termination notice. The respondents raised a number of defenses, and the court granted permission to conduct pretrial...
Landlord, a supportive housing provider, sued to evict rent-stabilized Section 8 tenant based on clutter and unsanitary apartment conditions that landlord claimed violated substantial obligations of the tenancy....
Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenant after serving a 90-day termination notice. Tenant asked the court to dismiss the case because the termination notice was fatally defective. The 90-day notice made no mention...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent in 2019. The parties signed a settlement agreement so-ordered by the court. Several year later, tenant claimed that he had signed the agreement...
A publicly subsidized tenant sued landlord for breach of her lease, claiming that landlord failed to abate a nuisance caused by an upstairs neighbor who made excessive noise. The court ruled against tenant, finding...
Landlord sued to evict an apartment occupant after the tenant died, claiming the occupant was either a licensee or a squatter. The occupant filed an ERAP application, and the court stayed the case. Landlord then...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant showed that she had filed an appeal of OTDA's denial of her application to the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP). This stayed the eviction...
Tenant sued landlord in an HP proceeding and claimed harassment. The court ruled for tenant after hearing credible testimony that landlord came to her right after she called 311 to report lack of heat. Landlord told...
Neighborhood residents sued the city, and asked the court to compel the city to take various actions in connection with a housing development project. They claimed that they lived in the neighborhood and insisted...
Tenant sued landlord for personal injuries after an accident where he walked into his apartment bathroom and the floor collapsed, causing him to fall into the boiler room below. Tenant asked the court to rule in his...
Landlord sued to evict Section 8 tenant for objectionable conduct affecting the health or safety of other tenants and persons. At trial, landlord showed that over several years, tenant exposed himself and screamed...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. The case was automatically stayed after tenant filed an ERAP application with the state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) in September 2021....
