Muriel Towers Co. v. City of New York Rent Guidelines Board

OPINION OF THE COURT

Sheldon S. Levy, J.

By this CPLR article 78 proceeding, petitioners seek annulment of Rent Guideline Order No. 14, adopted June. 25,1982, by respondent City of New York Rent Guidelines Board. The petitioners are owners of buildings subject to the Rent Stabilization Law of 1969 (Administrative Code of City of New York, ch 51, tit YY) and affected by subject order.

*838The instant suit was initiated because the June 25 meeting, which was open to the public by law (Public Officers Law, § 98, subd [a]), became, according to petitioners, a “shambles” where a “circus atmosphere…