Through attempts to enforce an order to clear tenants from a foreclosed Queens residence, New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development unintentionally became an agent of the bank that seized the property, a judge has ruled.
According to Queens Supreme Court Justice Carmen Velasquez‘s Aug. 6 decision in Marchant v. NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, 18175/14, Garth Marchant has lived in the residence since 2009 and collects rent from other tenants through a city rental assistance program.
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