Matter of Perez-Frangie v Donovan
2009 NY Slip Op 01291 [59 AD3d 269]
February 19, 2009
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, April 1, 2009


In the Matter of Teresa Perez-Frangie, Petitioner,
v
Shaun Donovan, as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Respondent. Glenn Gardens Associates, L.P., Nonparty Landlord.

[*1] Moss & Moss LLP, New York (Donald C. Moss of counsel), for petitioner.

Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York (Julie Steiner of counsel), for respondent.

Gutman, Mintz, Baker & Sonnenfeldt, P.C., New Hyde Park (Olga Someras of counsel), for nonparty landlord.

Determination of respondent New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), dated September 19, 2007, terminating petitioner's Section 8 housing subsidy, unanimously confirmed, the petition denied, and the proceeding brought pursuant to article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, New York County [Michael D. Stallman, J.], entered May 13, 2008), dismissed, without costs.

HPD's determination was supported by substantial evidence (Matter of Berenhaus v Ward, 70 NY2d 436, 443 [1987]) establishing that petitioner violated HPD's policy requiring truthful and complete reporting of her income.

The penalty assessed—termination of her subsidy—was not shocking to one's sense of fairness (see Matter of Kelly v Safir, 96 NY2d 32, 39 [2001]).

We have considered petitioner's other arguments and find them unavailing. Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Friedman, Gonzalez, Catterson and Renwick, JJ.