Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York April 7, 2009 (Jenkins v. Fieldbridge Associates, LLC)

OPINION OF THE COURT

COVELLO, J.

In the instant action, the plaintiff, a tenant living in a rent-stabilized apartment, filed a rent overcharge complaint in which he alleged that the owner improperly charged and collected rent greater than the legal regulated rent fixed by a rent reduction order in effect within the four-year period preceding the filing of the complaint, but issued prior to that