Client Story #1
Getting a Dismissal Before Trial

A young man lived in the lower east side with a terminally ill tenant. He could have asserted succession rights to the apartment, but ultimately decided to leave. The only request the man had was that he wanted time to find another apartment, and was willing to make a reasonable settlement and pay the rent. Unfortunately the landlord refused to negotiate and quickly commenced an eviction proceeding in housing court.
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Client Story #2
Preserving Not Just A Home, But A Business

The tenant lived in a rent stabilized brownstone in the Upper West Side. The landlord claimed that he wanted to move his own family into the tenant’s apartment, after doing renovations that would consolidate four different apartments. The tenant had a successful home business with many clients in the neighborhood. Losing his apartment meant not only losing his home, but his livelihood.
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Case Story #3
The Doctor Is In.

One New York doctor has maintained a rent stabilized apartment in Manhattan for twenty years. After she graduated from medical school, she interned at a Brooklyn hospital. The hospital provided housing on the campus. She lived by the hospital for three years. The landlord claimed that the doctor failed to maintain her Manhattan apartment as her primary residence.
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Client Story # 4

Tenants get three and a half years of free rent.

A small building landlord announced to her tenants that she needed all of them to move out. That same day in December, she turned off the boiler. Freezing and distraught, the tenants called our firm.

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Client Story #5

When a landlord just doesn't know when to quit.

Chris O’Leary lived in an East Village apartment for many years before he received a notice from the landlord, alleging that he was illegally subletting his apartment. The notice was completed unfounded: Chris maintained no other address, did not spend time away from home, and had impeccable documentation that his primary residence was in the apartment. Yet the landlord assumed that Chris would not have the resources or the gumption to sustain a fight in housing court. The landlord was wrong.

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