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GREYSTONE HOTEL CO. v. CITY OF NEW YORK

No. 96 CIV. 7943(LLS).

13 F.Supp.2d 524 (1998)

THE GREYSTONE HOTEL CO., Plaintiff, v. THE CITY OF NEW YORK, Edward Hochman, as Chairman of the Rent Guidelines Board, Earl Andrews, Paul Atanasio, Elissa Fitzig, Augusin Rivera, Joseph L. Forstadt, Harold A. Lubell, Leslie Holmes, and Kenneth Rosenfield, all as Members of the Rent Guidelines Board, Joseph Holland, as Commissioner of the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal, and the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

July 20, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Olshever, P.C., Newman, Tannenbaum, Helpern, Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP, New York City (Robert M. Olshever, Vincent J. Syracuse, Yolanda Kanes, David A. Pellegrino, of counsel), for Plaintiff.

Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York City (Gabriel Taussig, Sherrill Kurland, Dana Biberman, of counsel), for City Defendants.

West Side Sro Law Project, New York City (Elizabeth Kane, of counsel), Wayne G. Hawley, MFY Legal Services, Inc., New York City (Olive Karen Stamm, of counsel), for Tenants Amici Curiae.

OPINION AND ORDER

STANTON, District Judge.

The Greystone Hotel ("Greystone") claims that it is meant to be a transient hotel, housing guests at its own rate of $90 per night, but the law forces it to give leases to permanent tenants at a much lower rate set by the state.1

Greystone is a Class B hotel2 located in Manhattan and subject to the Rent Stabilization Law ("RSL")3...

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