June 2025
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No Rent Reduction Where Service Modification Resulted from Construction Next Door
Landlord Didn't Prove It Met Requirements for Alternative Hardship Rent Increase
Landlord Proves Apartment Was Vacancy Deregulation After IAIs Performed
Omission of Legal Rent Amount in Renewal Lease Didn't Prevent Willful Overcharge Finding
Landlord Overcharged Tenant by Charging Illegal Broker's Fee for Apartment
Landlord Proved Apartment Was Lawfully Deregulated in 2007
Landlord Didn't Demonstrate Building Was Substantially Rehabilitated
Overcharge Resulted from Increasing Preferential Rent in Excess of Guidelines
Landlord Proved Vacancy Deregulation of Apartment Through IAIs
Triple Damages Required for Post-HSTPA Overcharge Finding
2013 Individual Apartment Improvements Resulted in Apartment Deregulation
Payment of Rent Arrears with Monthly Rent Didn't Result in Overcharge
Landlord Didn't Explain How Apartment Was Deregulated
Tenants Didn't Receive J-51 Lease Riders
No Indication of Fraud Found to Warrant Pre-Base Date Rent Investigation
Lease Records Didn't Document That Tenant Paid Preferential Rent
No Overcharge Where Tenant Paid Less Than the Legal Rent for the Relevant Period
No Fraudulent Scheme Found in Connection with Rent Overcharge
Tenant Who Moved in After Building's Condo Conversion Wasn't Rent Stabilized
Landlord Could Recover Unregulated Apartment When Lease Term Ended
Deceased Rent-Stabilized Tenant's Niece Seeks to Maintain Parking Space
Landlord Can Pursue Claim to Recover Rent-Stabilized Apartment from Tenant's Wife
Trial Needed to Determine Landlord's Responsibility for Rent Overcharges in J-51 Building
Trial Needed to Determine if Apartment Was Legally Deregulated
Court Mistakenly Awarded Tenant Quadruple Damages for Rent Overcharge
Subtenant of Homeless Service Organization Gets New Trial to Claim Rent-Stabilized Status
Court Upholds HPD's Denial of Application for Certificate of No Harassment
Storm Recovery Agency Improperly Revoked Rehab Funds Issued to Landlord
Nonpayment Petition Dismissed Due to Failure to Prove Claimed Unregulated Rent
Court of Appeals Upholds Kingston's Adoption of Rent Stabilization, RGB Rent Appeal Guideline
Rent Demand That Didn't Reflect Amounts Owed Was Defective
Victims Can Now Sue for Injuries by Pets Caused by Negligence
No Stay of Eviction Granted to Occupant Who Couldn't Pay Use and Occupancy
Eviction Proceeding Dismissed After Landlord Starts Second Proceeding Against Same Tenant
Holdover Proceeding Dismissed for Improper Description of the Premises
Tenant's Portable Section 8 Voucher Didn't Exempt Apartment from Good Cause Eviction Law
Tenant Lawsuit Against Landlord's Attorneys Dismissed
Court Excuses Landlord's Late Filing of Affidavit of Service of Petition
Rent Demand That Merely Referred to Rent Ledger Was Fatally Defective
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