This case raises the issue of whether discrimination in the leasing of commercial space in violation of section 296 (5) (b) of the Executive Law is an affirmative defense to a holdover summary proceeding. Here petitioner is a corporation owned by ethnic Chinese while respondent, a white man, owns a liquor store in premises on the fringes of Chinatown which his family has rented since...
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