Schwartz Landes Associates v. New York City Conciliation & Appeals Board

Asch, J. (dissenting).

I would affirm the order of Special Term (124 Misc 2d 1067) directing the respondent Conciliation and Appeals Board (or its successor, the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal) to issue an order granting permission to the petitioner not to offer renewal leases to the tenant.

*84Petitioner landlord owns a building in which 17 apartments are leased to the corporate tenant, Fountain House. The tenant, an eleemosynary institution, designates the occupants of the apartments from among psychiatric patients who may temporarily need housing during their period of…