Goldstein v. Perez

In Goldstein v. Perez, 133 Misc. 2d 303 [Civil Court, Kings County 1986], the court declined to sign eviction warrants on default because the managing agent's address, a post-office box, failed to comply with an Administrative Code requirement that the agent register his or her residence or business address. The court observed that a post-office address is not a business or residence address because one does not "live or ordinarily work in a post-office box" ( id. at 306). Moreover, the court reasoned that a post-office box was inadequate because a managing agent was required to be available at the registered address for tenants to make complaints and to serve process for code enforcement proceedings (id.).