Waverly Place Associates v. New York State Division of Housing & Community Renewal

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (James Yates, J.), entered July 25, 2001, which denied petitioner landlord’s application to annul respondent State Division of Housing and Community Renewal’s (DHCR) determination in a fair market rent appeal, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

It appears that after the landlord served its answer to the tenant’s administrative complaint, there was total inactivity *212for almost five years due to administrative delay. When the Rent Administrator took the matter up again by forwarding to the tenant a revised version of the complaint form, she failed to…