Best v. New York State Department of Social Services

*194Substantial evidence in the record supports respondent’s determination upholding denial of petitioner’s application for emergency rent assistance on the ground that he was ineligible therefor (see, Baumes v Lavine, 38 NY2d 296). Petitioner failed to show, inter alia, that the emergency grant was necessary to forestall eviction or that there was a threat to his health and safety (18 NYCRR 352.7 [g] [3] [i], [ii]; see, Matter of Hawkins v Commissioner of N. Y. State Dept. of Social Servs., 161 AD2d 377). It is also clear that petitioner was ineligible for this grant because his gross income…