Toledo Mutual Housing Corp. v. Schwartz

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

In this holdover proceeding predicated on a claim that tenant Norma Schwartz and undertenant Marc Schwartz (hereinafter tenants) had violated their proprietary lease by harboring a dog without landlord cooperative corporation’s consent, tenants moved to dismiss the petition and for an award of attorney’s fees, asserting that they had harbored the dog openly and notoriously for more than three months and were thus protected under the New York City Pet Law (Administrative Code of City of NY § 27-2009.1). In opposition, landlord asserted that it had forborne from…