Welcome to the informational website for the 27-03 42nd Road lawsuit.

If you are a current or former tenant of the building located at 42nd Road, Queens, New York (the ”Building”) who occupied your apartment at any time on or after October 12, 2016 then you may be a member of a Plaintiff Class in a lawsuit against the owners of the aforementioned building, which is currently pending in the New York Supreme Court, Queens County.

Plaintiff here asserts that Defendant received 421-a tax benefits at the Building. Under New York State law, these benefits were only available if all the apartments at the Building were subject to the rent-stabilization laws. The 421-a Program limits the amount of rental increases available to a landlord at the time a lease is renewed. Plaintiff asserts that Defendant utilized concessions on initial or subsequent tenancies that were not taken into account when setting the initial or preferential rents at the Building. Plaintiff asserts that, as a result, tenants at the Building were charged more than the maximum legal rent for their apartments and/or were denied the other benefits of rent-stabilization, such as mandatory lease renewals at amounts allowed under New York State law.

On June 14, 2024, the Court certified the lawsuit to proceed as a class action on behalf of all tenants at the Building living, or who had lived, in apartments on or after October 12, 2016 (the “Class”).

Read the Notice and this website carefully. Your legal rights are affected whether you do or do not act.


Your Legal Rights and Options in This Lawsuit
Do Nothing If you do not request exclusion from the Class, you will be included in the Class and bound by any judgment ordered by the Court. In the event such judgment results from a settlement by the parties, you will have the right to object to the terms of the settlement, to participate in the settlement, or to exclude yourself from the settlement.
Ask to Be Excluded If you exclude yourself, you will not be bound by the Court’s determination of Plaintiff’s claims—whether positive or negative to the Class—and you will remain free to pursue your own claim for damages independently.
Letters requesting exclusion should be mailed via First-Class Mail and postmarked on or before May 2, 2025.

Important Dates
  • May 2, 2025
    Deadline to exclude yourself from the lawsuit