Landlord-Tenant—Order Restoring Tenant to Possession After Execution of Warrant of Eviction Affirmed—Concurring Justice Concerned As to “Underpinning” of Recent Law and How Landlords Are Unfairly Forced to Serve As “Defacto No-Interest Lenders” to Low Income Tenants Who Rely on the Slow Process of Obtaining Assistance For Rent

A TRIAL COURT had granted a tenant’s motion to, inter alia, “be restored to possession of the subject apartment upon his payment of $14,030.59 to petitioner landlord by a specified date.” The Appellate Term and the Appellate Division (court) affirmed.