Although Mr. Huggins had not previously raised retaliatory eviction as a defense, and petitioner initially objected to his doing so at trial, he testified, without further objection, that he had leaks in his apartment for eight months before he took Mr. Barr to court “in September”; that in September 2012 he went to NYCHA to file a complaint about the leaks; that after calling 311, an inspector came to his apartment on September 6, 2012; that Mr. Barr told him that he would do repairs when he was ready to do so and that “no tenant doesn’t pay him rent for repairs or whatever” and he “wouldn’t care if you had a flood like Noah’s ark.” Mr. Huggins claimed that Mr. Barr commenced this case in retaliation for his filing complaints with the City and NYCHA, and because he commenced a court case to compel Mr. Barr to fix the leaks in his apartment, and pointed out that although his first lease ended on January 31, 2012, Mr. Barr did not commence this case until October 18, 2012. He supported his retaliatory eviction claim with a letter from Mr. Barr dated May 4, 2012, which indicated that he would commence a “holdover Action” against him if he did not pay his arrears of $3,783;1 a receipt from NYCHA dated September 4, 2012, stating that he had requested a special inspection regarding *609leaks in his ceiling; a printout of violations of record downloaded from the website of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), showing that four violations for apartment 1 on the first floor,* 2 including two for water leaks, were found by that agency on September 6, 2012, and that several other violations, including two for roof leaks, were reported on December 5, 2012; a history of complaints made to HPD regarding the building from May 9, 2012 through May 9, 2013, also downloaded from HPD’s website, showing that several complaints regarding the first floor apartment, including one about a roof leak, were made on September 5, 2012, November 29, 2012, and December 27, 2012; a copy of Mr. Huggins’ order to show cause dated November 29, 2012, commencing an HP action against Mr. Barr; several other orders to show cause in the HP action, in which Mr. Huggins asked the court to impose civil penalties against Mr. Barr for failing to make repairs; and a default order issued in the HP action on January 24, 2013, in which the court imposed civil penalties against Mr. Barr.