Herzog, Nichols & Leahy for landlord. Hinman, Straub & Manning for tenant.
Albany Business Rent Control Law does not apply to this tenant, and that the landlord was within legal propriety in increasing the rent of the two-room unit from $131 to $157.20 per month. The tenant has argued among other things that the emergency rent law should be applied to each separate unit and argues that if the two offices were in different buildings, it would be manifestly absurd to regard them as a single unit. I do not pass upon such a hypothetical point. It is merely the determination of this court that, under the facts involved herein, in which the two rooms were joined together and used as a single suite, they must be considered as combined to form one single unit for the purposes of the Albany Business Rent Control Law. Judgment may therefore be entered granting a final order to the landlord evicting the tenant unless the rent for the month of July in the amount of $157.20 is paid.