MATTER OF NEWPORT ASSOCIATES v. NATHAN LEVENTHAL, 41 N.Y.2d 838 (1977)

393 N.Y.S.2d 401, 361 N.E.2d 1049

In the Matter of NEWPORT ASSOCIATES, INC., Respondent, v. NATHAN LEVENTHAL, as Commissioner of the Department of Rent and Housing Maintenance, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.Argued January 6, 1977
Decided February 10, 1977

Appeal dismissed, without costs, for mootness, upon the

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ground that the leased premises were voluntarily vacated by the tenant in June, 1975, and subsequent to the effective date of the Vacancy Decontrol Law (L 1971, ch 371, as amd by L 1974, ch 576) which provides for the decontrol of leaseholds vacated after June 30, 1971 (Local Emergency Housing Rent Control Law, § 5; L 1962, ch 21, § 1, subd 5, as amd).