Matter of Quan v New York City Dept. of Hous. Preserv. & Dev.
2010 NY Slip Op 01439 [70 AD3d 528]
February 18, 2010
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 31, 2010


In the Matter of Oanfa Quan, Appellant,
v
New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development et al., Respondents.

[*1] Cornicello & Tendler, LLP, New York (Jay H. Berg of counsel), for appellant.

Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York (Susan Paulson of counsel), for municipal respondent.

Kellner Herlihy Getty & Friedman, LLP, New York (Charles Krausche of counsel), for Chinatown Apartments, Inc., respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Marylin G. Diamond, J.), entered July 13, 2009, which denied petitioner's application to annul the determination of respondent New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) denying petitioner succession rights to the subject Mitchell-Lama apartment, and dismissed the proceeding, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The determination that petitioner did not sustain her burden of establishing her entitlement to succession rights to her grandmother's apartment had a rational basis (see Matter of Hochhauser v City of N.Y. Dept. of Hous. Preserv. & Dev., 48 AD3d 288 [2008]; Matter of Pietropolo v New York City Dept. of Hous. Preserv. & Dev., 39 AD3d 406 [2007]). Although petitioner did submit, inter alia, income affidavits and tax returns listing the subject apartment as her address, in rejecting the application, HPD was entitled to consider the inconsistencies contained in other documents filed during the relevant time period, including where petitioner provided an address other than the subject apartment as her place of residence (see 28 RCNY 3-02 [n] [4]; Hochhauser, 48 AD3d at 289).

Contrary to petitioner's contention, she was not entitled to an evidentiary hearing since the regulation under which she claimed succession rights does not provide for a hearing (see 28 RCNY 3-02 [p]). The record shows that petitioner utilized the statutory protections and was [*2]afforded all the due process to which she was entitled under the circumstances (28 RCNY 3-02 [p] [8] [ii]; Pietropolo, 39 AD3d at 407). Concur—Friedman J.P., Sweeny, Nardelli and Freedman, JJ.