Committed Community Associates v. Croswell
| Decision Date | 26 May 1998 |
| Citation | 250 A.D.2d 845,673 N.Y.S.2d 708 |
| Parties | , 1998 N.Y. Slip Op. 5051 In the Matter of COMMITTED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATES, Appellant, v. Regina CROSWELL, Respondent. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Gutman, Mintz, Baker & Sonnenfeldt, P.C., New Hyde Park (Kenneth P. Mintz, of counsel), for appellant.
Martin S. Needelman, Brooklyn (Paul J. Acinapura and Randolph Petsche, of counsel), for respondent.
Before BRACKEN, J.P., and COPERTINO, JOY and McGINITY, JJ.
MEMORANDUM BY THE COURT.
In a summary proceeding to recover for the nonpayment of rent, the petitioner appeals, by permission, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court for the 2nd and 11th Judicial Districts, dated March 7, 1997, as (1) dismissed its appeal from a decision of the Civil Court, Kings County (Callender, J.), dated March 8, 1995, and (2) affirmed so much of a judgment of the same court entered June 13, 1995, as based the tenant's rent abatement of $2,300 upon the full monthly contract rent rather than the tenant's share thereof.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The petitioner-landlord commenced this proceeding to recover for the nonpayment of rent, and the respondent-tenant counterclaimed that the landlord had breached the warranty of habitability. The apartment in question was subject to Federal regulations by the Department of Housing and Urban Development as project-based Section 8 housing (see, 24 CFR part 880). Contrary to the landlord's claim on appeal, the Civil Court did not lack subject matter jurisdiction in this case (see, CCA 110). Furthermore, the Appellate Term properly affirmed the Civil Court's determination that the monetary basis for calculating the rent abatement found to be due the tenant because of the landlord's breach is the full contract rent, defined in the regulations as the sum a landlord receives both from HUD (or through public housing agencies) and from the tenant (see, 24 CFR 880.101[c] ), and which reflects the fair market value of the apartment (see, Park West Mgt. Corp. v. Mitchell, 47 N.Y.2d 316, 329, 418 N.Y.S.2d 310, 391 N.E.2d 1288, cert. denied 444 U.S. 992, 100 S.Ct. 523, 62 L.Ed.2d 421).
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