December 2014
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Tenant in Co-op Building Can Cure Failure to Renew Lease
Landlord Waited Too Long to Seek Eviction for Harboring Dog
Loft Subtenant Claims Illusory Tenancy
Section 8 Tenant Not Responsible for Full Rent After Subsidy Terminated
Tenant Gets Attorney's Fees in Overcharge Proceeding
No Triple Damages Where Landlord Issued Rent Credit
Landlord Not Responsible for Tenant's Death During Heat Wave
Landlord Illegally Locked Out Rooming House Occupant
Co-op Shareholder Tenant Allowed to Cure Illegal Sublet
Tenant with Overcharge Claim Can Vacate Settlement Agreement
Tenant Restored to Possession After HRA Agrees to Pay Rent Arrears
Tenant Can Be Evicted for Creating Unsanitary Conditions
NYCHA and Tenants Settle Dispute Over Emergency Transfer Procedures
Tenants Can Bring Class Action Based on Unlawful Deregulation and Rent Overcharge
Tenant Temporarily Absent from Apartment Due to Medical Condition
Tenant Claims Landlord Responsible for Noisy Neighbor
Tenant Can Keep Barking Dog that Improved Over Time
Landlord Altered Apartments for Transient Use
Registered Interim Multiple Dwelling Didn't Need C of O
Partition Around Boiler Created Hazard
Fire Extinguisher Required During Building Demolition
Two-Family House Illegally Altered to Seven SRO Units
Landlords Can Proceed with Challenge to 2014 Rent Stabilization Code Amendments
Tenant's Rent-Stabilized Lease Exempt from Bankruptcy Estate
Landlord Claims Tenant Didn't Renew Lease
Former Tenant Claims Damages from Lead Paint
Federal Court Stays Eviction of Tenant Who Claims Discrimination in Dog Case
Eviction Case Against Super Delayed
No Link Found Between Tenant Alterations and Leak
Landlord Named in Petition Wasn't Building Owner
Tenant in Building Under Receivership Is Rent Stabilized
Tenant's Son Can't Get Rent-Controlled Apartment
No High-Rent Vacancy Deregulation Where Work Didn't Qualify as IAIs
Landlord Can't Discontinue Swimming Pool Service
Tenant Default Excused in Luxury Deregulation Proceeding
No Fraud Where Landlord Charged Same Rent After Combining Apartments
Four-Year Rule Applied Where No Indication of Fraud
Failure to File Rent Registrations Before Base Rent Date Didn't Prove Fraud
Fraud Finding Wouldn't Result in Extended Period of Triple Damages
DHCR Can't Order Lease Nonrenewal for Chronic Nonpayment of Rent
Landlord Can Discontinue Sunday Trash Pickup
Elevator Upgrade Qualifies as MCI
MCI Increase Granted for New Courtyard
Useful Life of Existing Elevator Controller Hadn't Expired
Landlord's Partial Rewiring Upgrade Didn't Qualify as MCI
No Overcharge to First Tenant After Base Date Vacancy
First Rent Charged to Tenant in 421-a Building Was Approved by HPD
Tenant's Sister Gets Rent-Stabilized Apartment
Landlord Properly Discontinued Preferential Rent
No Proof of Additional Apartment Occupant
Tenant Gets 40 Percent Rent Abatement for Apartment Conditions
Rent Restored After Apartment Made Habitable
Tenant Wouldn't Let Exterminator Treat Apartment
Rent Reduced Based on HPD Hot Water Violations
No Rent Restoration for Unsafe Stove Installation
Rent Restored After Landlord Carpets Floors
No Fraud Where Prior Rent Set by Court Settlement
Landlord Proves Cost of Individual Apartment Improvements
Case Dismissed for Failure to Send Notice to Cure
Failure to Calculate Rent in Vacancy Lease Rider Didn't Create Rent Overcharge
