Ruiz v. Chwatt Assocs (1997)

In Ruiz v. Chwatt Assocs. (NYLJ, Aug. 20, 1997, at 21, col 4), an action in Supreme Court, New York County, for an alleged rent overcharge, involving a professional apartment on the ground floor of a large cooperative apartment building rented to a doctor, a residential lease was used, with a rider that restricted use to a medical office. The court concluded that the doctor was not given permission to move a bed in and live in what had been, for the former doctor tenant, an operating room, while using the rest as a medical office.