Various Tenants of 149 East 48th St. v. Weaver

Tenants dwelling in two tenement houses have brought this proceeding under article 78 of the Civil Practice Act to annul a determination and order of the State Bent Administrator granting certificates to evict them from their homes. The avowed purpose of the eviction is to enable the owner of the two buildings recently acquired by it — in fact the deed for one was not even executed until after the application to evict the tenants had been filed — to demolish them and to use the land on which they stand for the expanding needs of an adjoining parking lot now operated by the same owner.…