The owner of an Upper West Side apartment building must reduce the rents of rent-regulated tenants after it stopped paying for their electricity, even though it offered to credit the tenants for the electric bills, a Manhattan state judge recently ruled.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Cynthia Kern (See Profile) ruled in a Dec. 2 order in 98 Riverside Drive v. New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal, 101285/13, that the landlord had violated the rent laws by changing its electric meters to allow for individual billing without first getting permission from the Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR). Its proposed remedy of crediting each month’s electric bill toward the following month’s rent was too burdensome to the tenants, she said.
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