State Commission for Human Rights v. Harvey Properties, Inc.

This is an application by the State Commission for Human Rights brought pursuant to subdivision 4 of section 297 of the Executive Law, for an order enjoining the respondents from selling, renting, leasing or otherwise disposing of an apartment located at 34 Theodore Fremd Avenue, Rye, New York, to anyone other than one Awilda Britto, a complainant in a proceeding pending before the State Commission.

The petition alleges that the respondents refused to rent the subject apartment to the said complainant because of her race and color.

The petition contains the conclnsory allegation that unless the…