Sharon Realty Co. v. Abrams

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edith Miller, J.), entered on March 27, 1990, which dismissed petitioner’s CPLR article 78 proceeding challenging a determination by respondent rejecting petitioner’s cooperative offering plan, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The Attorney-General is required to reject an offering plan if more than 10% of the apartments in the building are "long-term vacancies”, defined as apartments vacant for more than

Competent evidence before the Attorney-General showed that one apartment was occupied by a man whose daughter, more than five months prior to the submission date, contacted the sponsor by telephone and unequivocally informed the petitioner that her father was in a nursing home and would not be returning to the apartment. Competent evidence also showed that another apartment was unoccupied for a substantial portion of the five months, and was subleased without authorization by a rent-stabilized tenant not in primary residence for the remainder of the five-month period. Accordingly, the Attorney-General had a rational basis for determining that both apartments were long-term vacancies (Matter of Harbor Tower v Abrams, 85 AD2d 558 , affd 56 NY2d 740 ).

We decline to reach arguments predicated on facts presented for the first time to the article 78 court (see, Matter of Fanelli v New York City Conciliation & Appeals Bd., 90 AD2d 756 , affd 58 NY2d 952 ). Concur—Murphy, P. J., Carro, Rosenberger and Smith, JJ.