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MAYER v. CITY RENT AGENCY

46 N.Y.2d 139 (1978)

Myron Mayer et al., Respondents-Appellants, v. City Rent Agency, City of New York, et al., Appellants-Respondents, Coalition against Rent Increase Pass-Alongs (CARIP) et al., Intervenors-Appellants, and Victor Marrero, as Commissioner of State Division of Housing and Community Renewal, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 21, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen H. Deutschmeister, Harry Michelson, Lawrence A. Silver and Esther Niderberg for City Rent Agency, appellant-respondent.

Allen G. Schwartz, Corporation Counsel (L. Kevin Sheridan of counsel), for City of New York, appellant-respondent.

Robert Sugerman and Joshua Roth for Coalition Against Rent Increase Pass-Alongs and others, intervenors-appellants.

Robert S. Fougner and Gary Rosenberg for respondents-appellants.

Martin A. Shlufman and Harold Zucker for respondent.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Daniel M. Cohen and Samuel A. Hirshowitz of counsel), in his statutory capacity under section 71 of the Executive Law and CPLR 1012 (subd [6]).

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and COOKE concur.

JONES, J.

New York City Local Law No. 76 of 1977, the so-called Labor Cost Repeal Law, is invalid because it violated the statutory prohibition against the enactment of local laws subjecting rent controlled housing accommodations to more stringent or restrictive regulation and control than that in effect on June 1, 1971, and was not validated in consequence of its approval by the State Commissioner of Housing...

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