Velasquez v. New York State Division of Housing & Community Renewal

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to review a determination of the Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal, dated January 17, 2013, which modified a determination of the Rent Administrator dated May 26, 2010, by recalculating the legal regulated rent for the subject apartment to be $1,200 per month, thereby reducing the rent overcharge total, and a counterclaim to review so much of the determination dated January 17, 2013, as confirmed so much of the determination of the Rent Administrator as imposed a penalty of treble damages for certain…