Tenant complained in 2016 of improper apartment deregulation and rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. The DRA found that landlord performed individual apartment improvements (IAIs)...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2016. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment was no longer subject to rent stabilization. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that the unit...
Tenant asked the DHCR to determine whether her apartment was rent stabilized. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to offer tenant a rent-stabilized lease and to register the apartment.
Tenants filed a class action against landlord, claiming rent overcharge. The building had been temporarily exempt from rent stabilization on the base rent date four years earlier when it was owned by Brooklyn Law...
Tenant complained that his apartment had been improperly deregulated. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding in 2018 that the apartment was a newly created unit, that the first legal rent was above the $2,000 high-...
Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2018 of rent overcharge and improper apartment deregulation. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. The apartment had been legally deregulated in June 2008 due to high-...
Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenants' rent-stabilized apartment in 2014. After confirming that tenants' annual household income exceeded the $200,000 income threshold for 2012...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding no overcharge. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant received a rent-stabilized vacancy lease when she moved into the unit in October 1995. But...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment was no longer subject to rent stabilization. Tenant appealed and, while tenant's PAR was pending, the...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of his apartment. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the monthly legal rent of $2,895 paid in 2014 by prior tenant exceeded the threshold for...
Landlord sued to evict tenant, claiming that tenant's apartment was exempt from rent stabilization due to high-rent vacancy. Tenant claimed that he was rent stabilized. The court ruled against tenant, who...
(Decision submitted by Elizabeth A. Lentini of the Manhattan law firm of Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel, P.C., attorneys for the landlord.)
