283 A.D. 728 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1954
In a proceeding pursuant to article 78 of the Civil Practice Act to review and annul an order of the State Rent Administrator which established maximum rent of petitioner’s apartment at $64.50 a month, petitioner appeals from an order dismissing her petition. Order affirmed, without costs. Prior to May, 1948, the maximum rent of the housing unit occupied by appellant was $30 a month. In May, 1948, the area rent office of the office of the housing expediter ordered that the maximum rent be increased to $64.50 a month. That order fixed the maximum rent for the housing unit, furnished or unfurnished, and was in effect at the termination of Federal control. Thereafter, appellant, who had entered into a lease of the apartment after it was subject to State control, filed an application with the Temporary State Housing Rent Commission to cancel the 1948 Federal order or to reduce the rent to $30 a month. On March 10, 1952, the local rent administrator determined that the rent on December 1, 1950, was $32 a month, pursuant to section 36 of the