Windsor Park Tenants' Ass'n v. New York City Conciliation & Appeals Board

Hawkins, J. (concurring).

I concur in the majority’s conclusion to affirm.

In my view, Special Term properly confined its reasoning to the quintessential issue: are the respondent tenants to be accorded a reasonable opportunity, and at their own expense, to have their own accountants and attorneys examine the appellant landlord’s books and records. There would then follow a further hearing by the Conciliation and Appeals Board (CAB), a coappellant, a creature of the Rent Stabilization Law.

Having affirmed the determination that the tenants of this vast apartment house complex are entitled to an…