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Landlords Barred From Evicting Rent-Stabilized Tenants
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Sabrina Jaszi
Published Mar 8, 2010
Modified Mar 8, 2010
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Upper West Side landlords were caught in a lie when they tried to evict rent-stabilized tenants on the grounds that they needed the rental property for their own family. Every other resident in the brownstone on West 92nd had been pushed out, except for Beverly West (author of Pug Therapy) and her husband, reports the Post. The landlords, who bought the property in 2005, said they'd need the whole building for their daughter and unborn grandchildren, but the six new buzzers and mail boxes they installed suggested otherwise. The couple sued, and in an unusual decision, the judge ruled in favor of the low-paying tenants: "I do not believe that [the landlords] intend to occupy the entire building. The evidence simply does not support this claim," she wrote.
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