January 2010
1 post
Tenants Win Major Victory over Rent Guidelines...
Tenants with rents under $1,000 may soon see a significant reduction in their base rent as well as a credit for past overpayments.
In Casado v. Markus, (NY County Index No.: 402267/2008) Justice Emily Jane Goodman of the New York State Supreme Court found that the New York City Rent Guidelines Board overreached its authority when it imposed a minimum rent increase (a/k/a a “poor...
December 2009
2 posts
Seth Miller Testifies Before the City Council
On December 16, 2009 Seth Miller testified on behalf of the Mitchell Lama Residents Coalition, before the City Council Committee on Housing and Buildings. The Committee was holding an oversight hearing on HPD’s supervision of Mitchell Lama housing.
After laying out HPD’s long history of cutting private deals with landlords instead of enforcing the requirement that prevents J-51...
The Nine Lives of Daniel Peckham
Chelsea Partners v. Peckham goes back to DHCR
On December 10, 2009 Tim Collins won an order stopping the eviction of Daniel Peckham, who hired Collins, Dobkin & Miller, LLP after he lost his demolition case in the Court of Appeals.
In May of 2004 Chelsea Partners sought permission from the DHCR to terminate Daniel Peckham’s tenancy and demolish 244 West 21st Street. The application...
November 2009
4 posts
Seth Miller on Roberts v. Tishman Speyer...
In the November, 2009 issue of Tenant/Inquilino, the newsletter of the Metropolitan Council on Housing, Seth Miller published his analysis of the impact of the Court of Appeals’ decision in Roberts v. Tishman Speyer Properties, also known as the Stuyvesant Town Case.
The Legal Impact of Roberts v. Tishman Speyer Properties, L.P. By Seth A. Miller On Oct. 22, the Court of Appeals struck...
Steve Dobkin Quoted in the Times
In the Real Estate Q&A column in the New York Times on November 13, 2009, Steve Dobkin was asked about rent stabilization in a co-op building.
November 13, 2009, 11:22 am
Rent Stabilization Tied to Tax Abatement
By JAY ROMANO
Q.
We are thinking of renting in a new co-op building. We have been told that after the two-year lease ends, we will become rent-stabilized tenants. What would...
IPN Suit Gets Press (Two Days After Election Day)
In December, 2005 Collins, Dobkin & Miller, LLP brought a lawsuit to obtain rent stabilization protection for the more than 1,300 households at Independence Plaza North, in Tribeca. Independence Plaza is a former Mitchell Lama development that was privatized in June, 2004 while receiving J-51 benefits. Within months after our suit, the Bloomberg administration permitted the owner, Laurence...
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