Langdale Owners Corp. v. Lane

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

Final judgment unanimously reversed without costs and petition dismissed.

The issue on this appeal is whether a family member who moves in with a tenant of a rent-stabilized apartment after the building in which the apartment is located has been converted to cooperative ownership pursuant to a noneviction plan is entitled upon the tenant’s death to a lease renewal pursuant to section 2523.5 of the Rent Stabilization Code (9 NYCRR).

Occupant’s mother lived in the subject rent-stabilized apartment. The building in which the apartment is contained was converted to…