Morning Light Realty, LLC v Brown (2018 NY Slip Op 28334)
Morning Light Realty, LLC v Brown
2018 NY Slip Op 28334 [62 Misc 3d 274]
October 24, 2018
Marcelle, J.
City Court of Albany
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, January 16, 2019
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Morning Light Realty, LLC, Petitioner,
v
Gregory V. Brown, Respondent.
City Court of Albany, October 24, 2018
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Michael F. O'Brien, Albany, for respondent.
John T. Keenan III, Albany, for petitioner.
{**62 Misc 3d at 276} OPINION OF THE COURT
Thomas Marcelle, J.
The landlord and tenant have a long and adversarial history—and to fully understand the decision in this case, that history, in brief, must be recited. For a number of years, Gregory V. Brown rented an apartment on the second floor at 285 State Street in the City of Albany. He worked for his former landlord doing basic janitorial work in the apartment building in exchange for $50 per month. Morning Light Realty (MLR) purchased the building in 2015 and kept Brown employed on the same basis as he had previously been. Things went well for a while. In June 2016, MLR and Brown agreed on a one-year lease extension. It appears that sometime in early 2017, MLR discharged Brown from his janitorial duties and hired a company to perform similar services in a number of properties that MLR had acquired along State Street.