Mahoney v. Altman

Motion number 139 of the calendar of August 4, 1970 in the proceeding under Index Number 8673/ 1970 and motion number 140 of the calendar of August 4, 1970 in the proceeding under Index Number 8577/1970 are herein consolidated for disposition.

The issues of fact and law presented in each of these two article 78 proceedings are substantially identical. In each case petitioners, tenants of rent-controlled residential apartments, seek to annul the determination of respondent Commissioner of the Department of Bent and Housing Maintenance of the City of New York, denying protest of an order of the…