Marbar, Inc. v. Katz

OPINION OF THE COURT

Douglas E. Hoffman, J.

This summary holdover proceeding presents the question of whether a long-term rent-stabilized tenant may be evicted for breaching a substantial obligation of her tenancy by replacing her landlord’s aged outdoor wooden deck with a new, apparently improved, slightly larger deck and installing a new brick and cement patio in an area that did not previously have such a structure, without permission of the landlord. If the tenant has breached a substantial obligation of her tenancy by effecting unauthorized alterations to the premises, and the breach can…