Legal Opinion
Meirowitz v. New York State Division of Housing & Community Renewal
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 20, 2006PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Rolando T. Acosta, J.), entered April 22, 2005, which denied the petition seeking to annul a determination affirming an order of the Rent Administrator that access to the backyard was not a service the owner was required to maintain for her tenant, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Petitioner tenant asserted that he was entitled to use the backyard garden merely because he had already used it openly and notoriously for an extended period of time without any written prohibition, i.e., a lease. The relevant inquiry is whether access to the backyard is a…
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