Hotel Associates, Inc. v. Manhattan Bowery Projects

OPINION OF THE COURT

David B. Saxe, J.

Is an alcoholism treatment center located in a Bowery skid-row hotel that has provided comprehensive therapeutic, medical and counseling services free of charge to its residents, most of whom are chronic alcoholics, a “required service” under the Code of the Metropolitan Hotel Industry Stabilization Association, Inc. (METHISA)?

If it is, then the landlord, who is prohibited under section 61 of the METHISA Code from unilaterally reducing required services, will be required to continue to maintain such an alcoholic treatment center at the hotel.

Two of my…