Henry Hudson Gardens, L.L.C. v. Bareda

Order of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department, entered October 22, 2004, which, inter alia, affirmed an order of Civil Court, Bronx County (Elizabeth J. Yalin Tao, J.), entered January 16, 2003, denying respondent tenant’s motion to stay eviction in a summary holdover proceeding, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The tenant acted pro se when the landlord commenced the latest of four holdover proceedings against him for chronic nonpayment of rent. He eventually stipulated to a six-month schedule of payments on penalty of losing the apartment.…