SHARP v. NORWOOD


223 A.D.2d 6 (1996)

643 N.Y.S.2d 39

Peter H. Sharp et al., as Executors of Peter J. Sharp, Deceased, Appellants, v. Angela Norwood et al., Respondents

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

May 21, 1996


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Magda L. Cruz of counsel (Sherwin Belkin and Paula Elaine Kay on the brief; Belkin, Burden, Wenig & Goldman, L. L. P., attorneys), for appellants.

Robert E. Levy for Angela Norwood, respondent.

ELLERIN, J., concurs with TOM, J.; MAZZARELLI, J., concurs in a separate opinion; SULLIVAN, J. P., and ROSS, J., dissent in a separate opinion by SULLIVAN, J. P.


TOM, J.

We affirm the Appellate Term and reject petitioner's contention that a rent-controlled tenant who has resided in the same apartment for 33 years and, over the course of the previous nine years, paid her rent on the average of two weeks late, while accumulating absolutely no arrears, has committed a nuisance and, thereby, has forfeited her leasehold.

Respondent tenant Angela Norwood, and her former...

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