New York City Housing Authority v. Jackson

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

Ordered that the order entered June 23, 2015 is reversed, without costs, and landlord’s motion, in effect, to vacate so much of the June 24, 2013 order as sua sponte permanently stayed the issuance of a warrant is granted.

Occupants Jonathan Headley and his wife, Pamela Jackson, defended this licensee summary proceeding (RPAPL 713 [7]) to recover possession of an apartment in a public housing project owned and operated by the New York City Housing Authority on the ground that Jonathan Headley, now deceased, was entitled to succeed to the tenancy of his mother as…