Legal Opinion
204 Columbia Heights, LLC v. Manheim
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 19, 2017No. 161520/13PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Tom, J.P.
The central issue in these appeals concerns the validity of a 1975 lease agreement for three combined apartments that provided, inter alia, that the rent-regulated status of the combined unit would be changed from rent-controlled to rent-stabilized. While we do not depart from longstanding precedent holding that leases that attempt to circumvent the rent laws or remove an apartment from rent regulation are void as against public policy, statute, and code (see Drucker v Mauro, 30 AD3d 37 [1st Dept 2006], appeal dismissed 7 NY3d 844 [2006]; 390 W. End Assoc. v…
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