Case Name: In the Matter of Jean Nelson Lumsby et al., Petitioners, v. Shaun Donovan, as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2008-04-03
Citations: 50 A.D.3d 318
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Jean Nelson Lumsby et al., Petitioners, v Shaun Donovan, as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 50
Pages: 318–318

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Jean Nelson Lumsby et al., Petitioners, v Shaun Donovan, as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, et al., Respondents.
[854 NYS2d 716]

Opinion:
Determination of respondent agency, dated November 27, 2006, to issue a certificate of eviction, unanimously confirmed, the petition denied, and this proceeding (transferred to this Court by order of Supreme Court, New York County [Marcy L. Kahn, J.]), entered on or about May 10, 2007, dismissed, without costs.
The finding that petitioner mother Jean Nelson Lumsby did not maintain the subject apartment as her primary residence for many years is supported by substantial evidence (see Matter of Shi Yi Tang v New York City Dept. of Hous. Presev. & Dev., 29 AD3d 470 [2006]). Since the mother was not occupying the apartment during the relevant period, petitioner Collette Lumsby could not establish succession rights through her (see Matter of Pietropolo v New York City Dept. of Hous. Preserv. & Dev., 39 AD3d 406 [2007]). Concur—Saxe, J.P., Sweeny, McGuire and Acosta, JJ.