Shapiro v. New York State Division of Housing & Community Renewal

—Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Walter Tolub, J.), entered on or about April 22, 1998, which, in a CPLR article 78 proceeding challenging respondent Division of Housing and Community Renewal’s (DHCR) luxury deregulation of petitioner tenant’s apartment for petitioner’s failure timely to serve an answer to the petition for deregulation, annulled the deregulation of petitioner’s apartment and remitted the matter to DHCR for further proceedings, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Petitioner tenant timely responded to the first Income Certification Form and, in…