Menoudakos v. Berman

By this article 78 proceeding, petitioner-landlord seeks to review an order of respondent Commissioner of the Department of Rent and Housing Maintenance by which certain housing accommodations were held subject to rent control *851and maximum rents on same were reduced for an alleged failure to provide essential services.

The threshold question involved is whether the subject accomodations are, in fact, four two-family houses, which are, as petitioner contends, decontrolled (Rent, Eviction & Rehabilitation Regulations of the New York City Rent & Rehabilitation Administration, § 2, subd. f, par.…