THOMAS WINSTON v. LESLIE TORRES

Since HPD "set the initial rents for the subject apartment[] following renovations that were financed in part with a Private Housing Finance Law loan from HPD, respondent New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal . . . was without authority to review petitioners' challenges to those rents . . . If petitioners wished to challenge the initial postrenovation rents set by HPD, . . . the proper course would have been to proceed . . . against HPD" ( Matter of Ahmed v New York State Div. of Hous. Community Renewal, Off. of Rent Control, 15 AD3d 216). The other relief sought by petitioners, such as a forensic accounting, was not requested before the agency and thus may not be requested from the courts ( see CPLR 7803).