1ST Department

A tenant sued her landlord believing she had been overcharged for rent, claiming that her apartment should have been subject to rent stabilization laws. While it had been regulated prior to the tenant moving in, it had undergone substantial renovation…

In this case, a corporation formally dissolved in 2013, but engaged in a lease modification in 2015 to assign the rights of the lease to another party. The question is twofold: whether the lease modification can be considered a part…