Estates NY Real Estate Servs. LLC v City of New York (2020 NY Slip Op 03093)
Estates NY Real Estate Servs. LLC v City of New York
2020 NY Slip Op 03093 [184 AD3d 56]
May 28, 2020
Webber, J.
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 5, 2020
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Estates NY Real Estate Services LLC, Appellant,
v
City of New York et al., Respondents.
First Department, May 28, 2020
Estates NY Real Estate Servs. LLC v City of New York, 2019 NY Slip Op 31598(U), affirmed.
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Rosenberg & Estis, P.C., New York City (Jeffrey Turkel and Nicholas Kamillatos of counsel), for appellant.
Georgia M. Pestana, Acting Corporation Counsel, New York City (Barbara Graves-Poller and Claude S. Platton of counsel), for respondents.
{**184 AD3d at 58} OPINION OF THE COURT
Webber, J.
In this declaratory judgment action, we are asked to determine whether the Human Resources Administration's security deposit vouchers constitute a "lawful source of income" under the City Human Rights Law (HRL) and whether the voucher program violates Social Services Law § 143-c or the Urstadt Law.
Plaintiff, Estates NY Real Estate Services LLC (Estates), acts as manager and leasing agent for multifamily apartment buildings throughout New York City. Defendants are the New York City Commission on Human Rights (Commission), which administers the City HRL, and the City of New York, which operates the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA), an administrative unit of the New York City Department of Social Services.
The Underlying Dispute