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In the Matter of Elise Watson, Petitioner, v Jerilyn Perine et al., Respondents.
    [732 NYS2d 159]
   —Determination of respondent New York City Housing Authority, dated August 8, 2000, which, after an administrative hearing, found that petitioner was not a family member within the meaning of the applicable rule and granted respondent Lindsay Park Housing Corp.’s request for a certificate of eviction, unanimously confirmed, the petition denied, and the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court pursuant to CPLR 7804 [g] by order of the Supreme Court, New York County [Louis York, J.], entered March 6, 2001), dismissed, without costs.

Upon review of the record, we find substantial evidence (see, 300 Gramatan Ave. Assocs. v State Div. of Human Rights, 45 NY2d 176, 180) to support respondent’s determination that petitioner was not entitled to succeed to the tenancy of the subject apartment upon the ground that she was a nontraditional family member of the deceased prior occupant of said apartment. While petitioner did share a close relationship with the decedent, she was not a family member of the decedent’s within the meaning of 28 RCNY 3-02 (p) (2) (ii) (A) and did not meet her burden of showing the “emotional and financial commitment and interdependence” with the prior apartment occupant upon which legal cognition of a nontraditional family relationship must be premised in the context of determining housing succession rights (see, 28 RCNY 3-02 [p] [2] [ii] [B]; see also, Seminole Realty Co. v Greenbaum, 209 AD2d 345, lv dismissed 85 NY2d 922).

We have considered petitioner’s remaining arguments and find them unavailing. Concur — Sullivan, P. J., Rosenberger, Tom, Wallach and Rubin, JJ.