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

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Nicholas Figueroa, J.), entered December 28, 1999, which denied petitioner tenant’s application to annul respondent Division of Housing and Community Renewal’s determination denying his rent overcharge complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Respondent properly refused to consider the rent history of the subject apartment beyond the four-year period measured from petitioner’s commencement of the rent overcharge proceeding on March 31, 1907 (Rent Stabilization Law of 1969 [Administrative Code of City of NY] § 26-516 [a] [2]; CPLR 213-a). It does…