Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized SRO hotel unit tenant for nonprimary residence. The trial court ruled for landlord. Tenant appealed and lost. The SRO unit was on West 79th Street in Manhattan. Landlord proved...
Tenant-shareholder sued landlord cooperative corporation, claiming that the co-op breached her proprietary lease and alteration agreement by stopping her renovation work. Landlord, in turn, claimed that tenant...
Landlord sued to evict tenants for nonpayment of rent. Tenants claimed a breach of the warranty of habitability. The court ruled in part for landlord, awarding a judgment for $15,000, after a $5,000 abatement for...
New owner sued to evict prior owner and other occupants from the house, claiming that their license to live there was expired. Prior owner agreed to vacate, but his daughter claimed that her father and his ex-wife...
Landlord cooperative corporation sued to evict tenant shareholder for failing to maintain and make repairs to her apartment. Landlord claimed that steaming hot water leaked from tenant's apartment. On Aug. 16,...
Tenant sued landlord for personal injury and emotional distress, claiming that her apartment was infested with bedbugs and that she had been bitten. The court denied landlord's request to dismiss the case...
Landlord filed an Article 78 court appeal of a DHCR ruling that two adjacent buildings were a horizontal multiple dwelling subject to rent stabilization. The court and appeals court ruled against landlord. The DHCR...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonprimary residence. Landlord named another apartment occupant as a party to the proceeding and asked the court for permission to conduct pretrial questioning of the...
Rent-stabilized tenant sued to evict apartment occupant. Tenant claimed that occupant was a licensee, but she was in fact a month-to-month subtenant. Tenant lived in a separate rent-stabilized apartment on the same...
Landlord, which operated Section 8 SRO housing for homeless individuals, sued to evict tenant after she had a baby. The housing units were intended for occupancy by one person, and tenant had signed an...
Landlord sued to evict low-income housing tenant for breach of a substantial obligation of his tenancy based on chronic nonpayment of rent. Landlord had sued to evict tenant three times in recent years. In the last...
Landlord sued to evict long-term tenant for nonpayment of rent. Landlord and tenant signed a settlement agreement in court, by which tenant agreed to pay back rent by a certain date. When tenant failed to do so, he...
