This decision involved a nonpayment proceeding against a rent controlled tenant (tenant). The petitioner (landlord) sought rent in the amount of $152 per month from October 2019 through August 2023.

The tenant’s “statutory successor tenancy vested on or about April 17, 2004, when her mother passed away.” “Four generations of respondent’s family have resided in” the subject apartment. The tenant lived in apartment 4L her entire life. She is one of two remaining rent controlled tenants in the building. The tenant in apartment 3R, is the tenant’s “mentally and physically disabled cousin.”