BLF Realty Holding Corp. v. Steven Kasher

In BLF Realty Holding Corp. v. Steven Kasher, (2002) 299 A.D.2d 87, the Appellate Division of the First Department held that the tenant of record was not entitled to the protection of RPL Section 235-f because the tenant took in two additional roommates who contributed towards the payment of rent. In cases where a tenant has reconfigured an apartment, separating parts of it and renting them out, Courts have viewed it as the kind of "opportunistic" behavior that the legislature was trying to prevent. The BLF Realty Court stated that, "A sublease is a 'transfer by a tenant of part of his estate or interest in the whole, or in a part, of the leased premises.'"