338 W. 46th St. Realty, LLC v Morton
2013 NY Slip Op 01049 [103 AD3d 518]
February 19, 2013
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 27, 2013


338 W. 46th Street Realty, LLC, Respondent,
v
George Morton et al., Appellants.

[*1] Bierman & Palitz, LLP, New York (Mark H. Bierman of counsel), for appellants.

Daniel R. Miller, Brooklyn, for respondent.

Order of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, First Department, entered on or about July 15, 2011, which, to the extent appealed from, modified an amended order of Civil Court, New York County (Gary F. Marton, J.), entered on or about October 7, 2009, to reduce the amount of attorneys' fees awarded to respondents, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Notwithstanding that the proceeding before the Division of Housing & Community Renewal (DHCR) was related to the summary possession proceeding, Real Property Law § 234 is not applicable to the DHCR proceeding, and respondents are not entitled to attorneys' fees incurred therein (see Matter of Blair v New York State Div. of Hous. & Community Renewal, 96 AD3d 687 [1st Dept 2012]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Moskowitz, Richter, Manzanet-Daniels and Clark, JJ. [Prior Case History: 32 Misc 3d 131(A), 2011 NY Slip Op 51333(U).]