Kramer v. New York State Division of Housing & Community Renewal

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Wetzel, J.), entered April 29, 2002, which denied petitioners’ CPLR article 78 challenge to a determination of the respondent agency, dated August 23, 2001, which, inter alia, set the initial 1980 legal rent for the subject apartment at $607.59 per month, deemed the leases renewed, and adjusted the rent to $1,245.99 for 2001, thereby resulting in arrears in the amount of $107,601.05 due the intervenor landlord, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The agency’s use of the 1980-1981 maximum base rent and certain electrical, labor and service…