Housing Court is not the proper forum to determine whether a building superintendent can evict a woman from the apartment they have shared since 1990, a state judge has ruled. Noting that the couple “held themselves out to society as companions who were emotionally and financially committed to each other” for 25 years before their relationship ended 2 1/2 years ago, Bronx Housing Court Judge Brenda Spears (See Profile) concluded in a Nov. 13 decision that Delia Reyes was more than a mere licensee of Julio Lopez.
“[A]s there was a familial relationship between the parties and the respondent’s occupancy of the subject apartment was because of that relationship, this court lacks jurisdiction to determine the rights, if any, of the respondent to remain in the subject apartment,” Spears wrote in Lopez v. Reyes, L&T 46875/11.
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