Brown-Reid v Jucida (2026 NY Slip Op 50399(U))
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Brown-Reid v Jucida
2026 NY Slip Op 50399(U) [88 Misc 3d 1241(A)] [88 Misc 3d
1241(A)]
Decided on March 23, 2026
Civil Court Of The City Of New York, Kings County
Eze, J.
Published by New York State Law Reporting
Bureau
pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected in part through July 15, 2026; it will
not be
published in the printed Official Reports.
Decided on March 23, 2026
Civil Court of the City of New York, Kings County
Shawnette
Brown-Reid, Claimant(s),
against
Rima Lindsey Ann Jucida; HORACE HENRY,
Defendant(s),
CARLOS BILLINGY; CARLOS BILLINGY, 3rd Party
Defendant(s).
Index No. SC-001290-25/KI
Chidi A. Eze, J.
This case comes up for trial in the Small Claims Part of the Civil Court of the City of
New
York, County of Kings, this 19th Day of March 2026. The parties appeared pro
se.
BACKGROUND
Plaintiffs (husband and wife) bring this case to recover unpaid rent from out of
possession
joint tenants, who are also husband and wife. The property address is 1898 East 51st
Street, 2nd
Floor, Brooklyn NY 11234. This is a two-family owner-occupied residential house,
wherein
plaintiffs-owners occupy the First-floor apartment. This was a month-to-month tenancy
agreement. The written lease offered in evidence commenced March 28, 2022, and
expired
March 31, 2023. No updated lease was offered by any side.
Plaintiff testified, without dispute or challenge from defendants, that defendants owe
back
rent from January 1, 2025, to April 1, 2025, at the rate of $2,500 per month, per expired
lease,
making the alleged debt $10,000. Defendants counter that they stopped paying their rent,
having
lived there since 2022, because; 1) the place had mold; and 2) plaintiff subjected them to