Rosario v. Diagonal Realty, LLC

Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Joan A. Madden, J.), entered July 29, 2005, which granted plaintiffs’ consolidated motions and summarily declared that defendants are obligated to continue accepting federal “section 8” rent subsidies with respect to the rent-stabilized plaintiff tenants and are not permitted to opt out of this federal subsidy program, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The federal requirement that “during the term of the lease, the owner shall not terminate the tenancy except for serious or repeated violation of the terms and conditions of the…