Beginning in May 2013, plaintiffs leased the subject apartment at a monthly rent of $2,950, increased to $2,979.50 in June 2015. In 2014, defendant's predecessor was receiving J-51 tax benefits, but registered the apartment as "exempt" due to "high rent vacancy" and based on improvements, notwithstanding the 2009 ruling of the Court of Appeals that rent-regulated apartments could not be removed from rent stabilization while the building received J-51 benefits (Roberts...
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