Rappaport v. Gaynor

This is a consolidated application pursuant to article 78 of the CPLR. The petitioners are tenants and landlord of a housing project constructed and operated pursuant to article 2 of the Private Housing Finance Law (limited-profit housing companies). The tenant petitioners seek to review and annul a determination of the respondent, Commissioner of Housing and Community Renewal of the State of New York, which granted an increase in rents. The landlord as petitioner seeks a review and modification of the order granting the increase insofar as it provided that such increase be applied on two…