Matter of Perez-Frangie v Donovan
2009 NY Slip Op 01291 [59 AD3d 269]
February 19, 2009
Appellate Division, First Department
As corrected through Wednesday, April 1, 2009


In the Matter of Teresa Perez-Frangie, Petitioner,
v
ShaunDonovan, as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation andDevelopment, Respondent. Glenn Gardens Associates, L.P., NonpartyLandlord.

[*1]Moss & Moss LLP, New York (Donald C. Moss of counsel), for petitioner.

Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York (Julie Steiner of counsel), forrespondent.

Gutman, Mintz, Baker & Sonnenfeldt, P.C., New Hyde Park (Olga Someras of counsel), fornonparty landlord.

Determination of respondent New York City Department of Housing Preservation andDevelopment (HPD), dated September 19, 2007, terminating petitioner's Section 8 housingsubsidy, unanimously confirmed, the petition denied, and the proceeding brought pursuant toarticle 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, New York County [MichaelD. Stallman, J.], entered May 13, 2008), dismissed, without costs.

HPD's determination was supported by substantial evidence (Matter of Berenhaus vWard, 70 NY2d 436, 443 [1987]) establishing that petitioner violated HPD's policyrequiring truthful and complete reporting of her income.

The penalty assessed—termination of her subsidy—was not shocking to one'ssense of fairness (see Matter of Kelly v Safir, 96 NY2d 32, 39 [2001]).

We have considered petitioner's other arguments and find them unavailing.Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Friedman, Gonzalez, Catterson and Renwick, JJ.


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