[From article]
Two cabbies used an obscure law to score sweet apartments near the High Line for as little as $226 a month — even though similar-sized digs in the neighborhood go for around $3,200.
Hamidou Guira spent just one night in his new home in the Chelsea Highline Hotel before he was able to game the system with the help of fellow hack Joe Stevens and score himself a lifelong lease, according to sources.
Guira did it by submitting a written request to become a permanent tenant under a little-known section of the Rent Stabilization and New York City Administrative codes.
Because the hotel at 184 11th Ave. is a former SRO, “an occupant who requests a lease of six months or more . . . shall be a permanent tenant,” the law says.
The owner must accept the lease at the regulated rate — $226 — and it can be renewed indefinitely.
In Guira’s case, the hotel manager tried “forcefully preventing” him from entering his room on July 31 after learning of his plan.
But the cabby went to Manhattan Housing Court and, acting as his own lawyer, won the case when Justice Sabrina Kraus ruled he was “unlawfully evicted” from his dirt-cheap digs.
http://nypost.com/2015/08/12/cabbie-lands-chelsea-pad-for-226-using-little-known-law/
Cabbie lands Chelsea pad for $226 using little-known law
By Julia Marsh and Jennifer Bain
New York Post
August 12, 2015 | 10:39pm
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