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Rent stabilized tenants win in Housing Court

Another landlord-tenant case in NYC Housing Court, this one involving a rent-stabilized tenant who was awarded additional rent abatements because his landlord (1461 Amsterdam Avenue LLC: I’d suggest you not rent there) had failed to make necessary repairs (“rent-impairing condition,” … Continue reading

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Public housing tenants’ eviction called “shocking”

Usually these abstracts from the New York Law Journal are–when comprehensible to a layman like me–spare and dry. But this decision from a New York appellate court on the eviction of a public housing tenant and his disabled girlfriend is … Continue reading

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Another Housing Court triumph: public housing tenant gets full abatement

Suddenly, there’s a lot of Housing Court news. Of course, since this case involves Sandy’s destruction of one woman’s apartment, it took quite a bit of time, i.e., two years, for this woman to get some justice. But what has … Continue reading

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