In May 2016, landlord timely applied to the DHCR for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment. The DRA ruled against landlord in November 2019, and dismissed the application...
In 2013, tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord failed to offer him a rent-stabilized renewal lease. Tenant didn't complain at that time of rent overcharge but asked for a ruling that the unit was subject to...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant based on tenant's failure to sign a renewal lease for the apartment. Tenant asked the court to dismiss the case, for permission to conduct discovery with respect to...
Tenants sued landlord for rent overcharge. The court ruled for tenants without trial and set the matter down for a hearing to calculate overcharges under the default formula set forth in Rent Stabilization Code...
Landlord sued tenant in State Supreme Court after sending tenant a termination notice before her one-year lease ended. Landlord claimed that tenant failed to vacate the apartment and sought to recover damages for...
Former tenant and another person sued landlord for breach of bailment and emotional distress, claiming that landlord had removed and damaged personal property from an apartment after tenant's eviction. Landlord...
Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. After the court granted landlord's request to execute a warrant of eviction in October 2022, tenant appealed and lost. Tenant's Article 81 guardian,...
Tenant sued landlord in State Supreme Court, claiming ongoing damages due to breach of the warranty of habitability. The court dismissed the case because tenant had already obtained relief against landlord in a...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for creating a nuisance. At trial, the tenant below testified that he heard running, screaming, banging, and ball playing at various times and had trouble sleeping as a...
Landlord sued tenant in State Supreme Court based on tenant's breach of lease and nonpayment of rent, seeking a total of $60,650 in back rent. Landlord asked the court for a default judgment against tenant when...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for creating or permitting a nuisance. After trial, the court found that the tenant had engaged in a number of incidents of threatening and harassing conduct toward the...
The DHCR's Rent Administrator issued a rent reduction order for rent-stabilized tenant's apartment in 2021 based on a reduction in services. Landlord later filed an application to restore rent, claiming that...
