Skulduggery. Although that might typically sound like a word closely linked with pirates or the worst kind of fraudsters, it recently featured in a New York Times article in connection with New York City landlords. Brothers, to be specific, who have prominently been in the…
Some readers of this blog, and many New York City residents generally, might be flatly bewildered by reasoning recently advanced by an advocate for city landlords regarding increases on rent-stabilized apartments. Many of our readers know much about that subject matter, with high numbers of…
From January 2013 to June 2015, over 450,000 eviction cases were filed in New York City. Many of these evictions are linked to the ease with which landlords can get around rent stabilization laws, thanks to a 1994 law. Since the law passed, apartment rents…
HCR (formerly known as DHCR) is the agency that has supervision over rent-stabilized and rent-controlled apartments. There are many proceedings that are handled by the HCR, including overcharge complaints, MCI applications, rent reduction applications, luxury deregulation petitions… Often (for instance in all MCI proceedings) it…
If you occupy a rent-stabilized apartment, you understand the value of your property. Rents are high in New York, and your current rent may be the only affordable way for you to remain in your home and stay afloat financially. However, landlords of rent-stabilized apartments…
Approximately two-thirds of the apartments in New York City are rent regulated. Rent regulated apartments include rent controlled and rent stabilized apartments in New York City and certain counties. Rent control and rent stabilization are two different programs with unique regulations. To learn whether your…
In a decision dated December 2, 2013, 98 Riverside Drive v. DHCR and 98 Riverside Drive Tenants Association, Justice Cynthia S. Kern of the New York State Supreme Court dismissed the landlord’s Article 78 petition against a rent reduction order issued by the DHCR which…
In the 1980’s, a Brooklyn brownstone containing 7 units was converted to 4 units. None of the units were ever registered with the DHCR. A duplex unit was occupied by the owners from 1998 to 2008. In 2008, these owners sold the building, and the…
Class Action law suits allow claims to be brought on behalf of many people who have been adversely affected by the actions of the defendant. Often times the individual claims are small but in the aggregate can be huge. For example, a credit card company…
“Discovery” is generally where a party to a legal proceeding is required to provide the other party with documents and sit for a “deposition” to help that party prove its case. (It can also involve production of videotapes, medical examinations, inspection of premises, etc.) A…
On November 21, 2012, a Civil Court Judge in Brooklyn issued a ruling in favor of the tenants in Chun v. Raywood. At issue in the case was whether a duplex apartment in a brownstone, renting for over $2,500 per month, was subject to rent…
In order for an apartment to be subject to rent stabilization, along with a number of other criteria, it must be located in a building that contains six or more apartments. Could two seemingly separate buildings that are commonly owned and managed and also share…
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