Ehrlich v. New York City Conciliation & Appeals Board

OPINION OF THE COURT

Martin B. Stecher, J.

This is a petition brought by the tenants of an apartment in New York City to annul a determination of the Conciliation and Appeals Board (CAB) which dismissed a petition on the grounds of loss of jurisdiction. The landlord had originally petitioned the CAB for leave not to renew the tenants’ lease in a rent-stabilized building on the ground that the apartment was not the tenants’ primary residence.

The tenants are tenants whose last renewal lease was, by its terms, to expire on September 30, 1982. At the time of its execution, three years earlier, the…