MATTER OF HARTMAN v. JOY


47 A.D.2d 624 (1975)

In the Matter of Ruth A. Hartman, Appellant, v. Daniel Joy, as Commissioner of Housing and Development Administration, Department of Rent and Housing Maintenance, Office of Rent Control, Respondent, and Empire Realty Company, Intervenor-Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

February 27, 1975


In 1972, the petitioner leased an apartment from the intervenor landlord at $350 a month as if the apartment were decontrolled. The apartment involved had been vacant since 1969, and before that the legal maximum rent was $152.06. The landlord had intended to convert the entire building to commercial use under the rent law and regulations. The building contained 36 units, and there were perhaps a half dozen empty apartments at the time the vacancy decontrol law became effective...

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