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EAST 17TH LLC, pet-land-res, v. KELLY MCCUSKER, res-tent-app

15-369/370. EAST 17TH LLC, pet-land-res, v. KELLY MCCUSKER, res-tent-app — Judgment (Brenda S. Spears, J.), entered December 1, 2014, reversed, with $30 costs, tenant's counterclaims for rent overcharges and attorneys' fees reinstated, and matter remanded to Civil Court for further proceedings consistent with this decision. Appeal from order (Brenda S. Spears, J.), dated October 2, 2014, dismissed, without costs, as subsumed in the appeal from the judgment.

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15-369/370. EAST 17TH LLC, pet-land-res, v. KELLY MCCUSKER, res-tent-app — Judgment (Brenda S. Spears, J.), entered December 1, 2014, reversed, with $30 costs, tenant’s counterclaims for rent overcharges and attorneys’ fees reinstated, and matter remanded to Civil Court for further proceedings consistent with this decision. Appeal from order (Brenda S. Spears, J.), dated October 2, 2014, dismissed, without costs, as subsumed in the appeal from the judgment.

The possessory issues underlying this lease expiration holdover proceeding have been resolved, as landlord concedes that the apartment is rent stabilized. The remaining monetary claims, including tenant’s rent overcharge counterclaim, are not susceptible to summary disposition, since triable issues are raised as to “whether a fraudulent scheme to destabilize the apartment tainted the reliability of the rent on the base date” (Meyers v. Four Thirty Realty, 127 AD3d 501, 502 [2015], quoting Matter of Grimm v. State of N.Y. Div. of Hous. & Community Renewal Off. of Rent Admin., 15 NY3d 358, 367 [2010]). In this regard, the rent records show that following a 1999 registration of a stabilized rent of $604.46, no registrations were filed until 2006, when a stabilized rent of $1,627.43 was registered; and in 2010, landlord offered tenant a free market lease at a time it was receiving J-51 tax benefits (see Matter of Grimm v. State of N.Y. Div. of Hous. & Community Renewal Off. of Rent Admin., 15 NY3d at 366). Moreover, even assuming the base date rent was proper, triable issues are presented as to whether apartment improvements undertaken by landlord in the period prior to tenant’s December 2010 occupancy justified the full rent increase collected.

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