Belarrem v. New York State Division of Housing & Community Renewal

89 A.D.3d 468, 931 N.Y.2d 878

Opinion

Petitioner failed to establish that she lived in the subject apartment with her parents for at least two years before their deaths (see 9 NYCRR 1727-8.2 [a] [1]). To the contrary, the evidence showed that petitioner’s parents lived in an apartment in another building during that time. Petitioner’s claim that the two nonadjacent apartments should have been considered a single primary residence is also unsupported, since there is no evidence that her parents maintained the subject apartment as an extension of their residence in the other building (see Sharp v Melendez, 139 AD2d 262 [1988], lv denied 73 NY2d 707 [1989]). Concur — Mazzarelli, J.P, Saxe, Acosta, DeGrasse and Manzanet-Daniels, JJ.