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SIERRA v. CITY OF NEW YORK

No. 07 Civ. 6769(JSR).

552 F.Supp.2d 428 (2008)

Juana SIERRA, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF NEW YORK; New York City Department of Buildings, and Patricia J. Lancaster, in her capacity as Commissioner of New York City Department of Buildings; New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and Shaun Donovan, in his capacity as Commissioner of New York City Department of Housing and Development; and Emad Ibrahem, Defendants.

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

May 13, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ami T. Sanghvi, Leslie T. Annexstein, Molly Doherty, Martha Ann Weithman, New York, NY, for Plaintiff.

Jerald Horowitz, New York City Law Department, New York, NY, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM ORDER

JED S. RAKOFF, District Judge.

Section 27-2076(b) of the New York City Housing Maintenance Code ("HMC") prohibits children under the age of sixteen from living in single room occupancy units ("SROs"), which are rooming units that lack either kitchen or sanitary facilities or both. Until several months ago, plaintiff Juana Sierra and her two young children occupied two such units at 24 West 119th Street in Manhattan. When Sierra's...

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