Plaintiff seeks to be restored, as a rent-stabilized tenant, to occupancy of apartment 71 in defendants' building, in which he had resided until a fire rendered the building uninhabitable in 2002.
The record demonstrates that the building was "effectively demolished" by a second massive fire in 2012 and that therefore there is no longer an apartment 71 to which to restore plaintiff (see Quiles v Term Equities,
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