Quigley v. Russo

OPINION OF THE COURT

John A. Milano, J.

Do the legal prerequisites mandated in Code of the Rent Stabilization Association of New York City, Inc. (Rent Stabilization Code) § 54 (B) summary proceeding permit a landlord to commence such an action to obtain possession of a tenants’ apartment, for his own personal use, when the landlord pur*138chased the subject premises subsequent to the expiration of the said tenants’ lease?

A threshold issue of law is raised in regard to the following facts conceded by the parties hereto. The tenants’ lease expired April 30, 1986. The new landlords took title on May…