Tenant complained of rent overcharge and claimed that landlord had improperly deregulated her apartment before she moved in. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that landlord committed...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that his apartment was exempt from rent stabilization. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant's apartment was newly created in 2004, and the...
Rent-stabilized tenant moved into an apartment in 1975. In 1996, landlord agreed to combine tenant's apartment with a vacant next-door apartment at tenant's expense and gave tenant a deregulated lease for the...
Two prospective tenants sued landlord of Mitchell-Lama complex, claiming source-of-income discrimination. Tenants were employed but lived in NYC homeless shelters. Tenants participated in NYC's Living in...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge and claimed that he was unlawfully deregulated. The DRA ruled against tenant as deregulated. The DRA found that: (1) the base rent date was Dec. 2, 2011; (2) in 2008, the prior...
Landlord sued to evict month-to-month tenant and claimed that the apartment was deregulated. Tenant claimed that he was rent stabilized and asked the court to dismiss the case. The court ruled for landlord. Tenant...
Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment in 2016. The DRA ruled against landlord. Because there had been a vacancy and the apartment rent now exceeded the $2,...
Landlord sued to evict a formerly rent-stabilized tenant, who remained as a tenant following the building's cooperative conversion under a nonprofit eviction plan under the Private Housing Finance Law. Tenant...
The DRA determined that landlord's building contained six or more apartments and therefore was subject to rent stabilization. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord then filed an Article 78 court appeal, claiming...
Tenants complained to the DHCR of a reduction in building-wide services. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents. Landlord appealed and won. Landlord claimed that the building wasn't subject to rent...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. Landlord claimed that the apartment had been deregulated. The DHCR ruled for tenant and found that the apartment wasn't eligible for deregulation. Landlord filed an Article...
