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

Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Alexander W Hunter, Jr., J.), entered August 23, 2012, which, to the extent appealed from, denied intervenor respon*458dent’s motion to dismiss the petition for failure to join a necessary party, or to transfer the proceeding to another Justice of the Supreme Court, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Intervenor respondent is not a necessary party to this CPLR article 78 proceeding, because the proceeding will not determine whether its building is subject to rent regulation or otherwise establish the parties’ rights; the best…