In response to a rent strike by residential tenants, plaintiff landlord commenced approximately 65 nonpayment proceedings in Civil Court, New York County, seeking rents for the period from October 1987 to May 1988. The various tenants alleged breach of the warranty of habitability. After extensive motion practice, trial began in December 1988. The plaintiff intentionally refrained from amending its petition to seek rent accruing subsequent to May 1988, and indeed opposed...
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