H&H Equities v. New York State Division of Housing & Community Renewal

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Bernard Burstein, J.), entered April 3, 1996, which denied petitioner’s application pursuant to CPLR article 78 to annul respondent’s determination denying petitioner a major capital improvement (MCI) rent increase, and dismissed the petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Respondent’s determination that extensive and hazardous plumbing problems in the premises warrant denial of the MCI rent increase for the repiping work that had been initially granted by the District Rent Administrator was not made in violation of respondent’s rules of review or…