542 East 14th Street LLC v. Lee

OPINION OF THE COURT

Final judgment, dated December 22, 2005, and order, dated March 27, 2006, affirmed with $25 costs. Judgment, entered March 2, 2006, modified to reduce tenant’s recovery of legal fees to the sum $34,053, and, as modified, affirmed, without costs.

In this holdover summary proceeding, landlord seeks possession of tenant’s stabilized apartment on the ground of nonprimary residence. The trial court, crediting tenant’s testimony, found that tenant did not abandon the subject apartment premises, but rather, temporarily relocated to California to care for her elderly, infirm…