Toolsee v. Department of Housing Preservation & Development

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Howard Silver, J.), entered May 4, 2001, which denied petitioners’ application to vacate, cancel and discharge respondent’s recorded notice of lien, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the application granted.

Petitioners brought this proceeding to vacate a recorded notice of lien in the amount of $33,371.67, filed on November 30, 1999, by respondent the Department of Housing Preservation and Development of the City of New York (HPD), against petitioner’s property located at 1053 Manor Avenue in the Bronx. The notice of lien states that the…