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

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen Bransten, J.), entered December 26, 2007, which denied the petition challenging the determination of the Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR) that rejected the tenant’s rent overcharge complaint, reversed, on the law, without costs, and the petition granted to the extent of remanding to DHCR for calculation of the legal regulated rent for the subject apartment beginning in 2002, consistent with the terms of the parties’ 1994 lease and the actual legal regulated rent paid by petitioner in 2000 and 2001, plus any applicable rent…