Lawrence v. Joy

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County, entered November 29, 1977, granting petitioner’s application to the extent of setting aside the Rent Administrator’s order decreasing the maximum rent of a controlled apartment, reversed, on the law, the petition dismissed and the determination of the Rent Administrator confirmed, without costs or disbursements. Petitioner is the landlord of premises 349 East 54th Street. The tenant, who occupies apartment 4B in the premises, has been in possession of the apartment since 1969. In 1976, he made application for a reduction in rent, asserting that the…