Haley v. Clayton

OPINION OF THE COURT

Diane A. Lebedeff, J.

This holdover proceeding was commenced by the owner on the ground that the rent-stabilized tenant had refused to execute a renewal lease. At trial, a series of arguments were presented raising a variety of issues relating to oral rental agreements and renewals of such agreements in the rent stabilization system.

The facts were essentially uncontested. The tenant took occupancy of a rent-stabilized apartment in August of 1977. Two years later, a new purchaser took title to the building and extended to the tenant an offer of a renewal lease. Although…