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[734 NYS2d 805]
    Port Chester Housing Authority, Respondent, v Carolyn Turner, Appellant.
    Supreme Court, Appellate Term, Second Department,
    October 9, 2001
    APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Westchester/Putnam Legal Services, White Plains (Barbara Finkelstein, Judith B. Studebaker and Ellen Stern of counsel), for appellant. Mark J. Kamensky, Port Chester, for respondent.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

Order unanimously reversed with $10 costs, tenant’s motion to vacate the final judgment and warrant granted, and matter remanded to the court below for all further proceedings.

In this nonpayment proceeding, the court below erred in entering a default final judgment awarding landlord an amount greater than asked for in the notice of petition and petition (see, Port Chester Hous. Auth. v Faison, NYLJ, Oct. 10, 1997, at 28, col 4 [App Term, 9th & 10th Jud Dists]). We also conclude that under the Federal public housing program involved herein, it was error to include in the final judgment nonrent items, even though characterized as “additional rent” in the agreement between the parties (see, Matter of Binghamton Hous. Auth. v Douglas, 217 AD2d 897, 898).

Floyd, P. J., Colabella and Coppola, JJ., concur.