Romero-Mitchell v. New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alice Schlesinger, J.), entered April 8, 2013, granting the petition, brought pursuant to CPLR article 78, seeking to annul the determination of respondent, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), dated August 22, 2011, to evict petitioner from an apartment in a Mitchell-Lama building, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In or about 1970, petitioner, then a minor, moved into the subject cooperative apartment with her mother. Years later, in 1975, shortly before her 18th birthday, petitioner was issued shares in the…