E. 19th Street Co. v. Gabel

This is an application by the landlord, under article 78 of the Civil Practice Act, which seeks to set aside a protest order issued by the City Rent and Rehabilitation Administrator, which had affirmed an order of the Local State Rent Administrator, increasing rents under the hardship formula, but which protest order revoked, prospectively, the rent increases granted by the local order.

The subject premises were purchased by the petitioner landlord on February 6, 1961. On March 20, 1961, the petitioner made an application for complete wide maximum rent increases to obtain what it regarded as a…