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rs2016
Guest
- Jurisdiction
- New York
I moved into a coop in August of this year. A few weeks after moving in there was excessive noise beyond what a reasonable expectation would be for fellow tenants. In any case, after weeks of trying to complain to the board and management, I had to call the cops in the middle of the night. It turns out the individual that has been making this noise is a friend of the upstairs tenant who allows her stay there when he's not there. She walks around in platform shoes and throws things around. When I slipped a note under her door, she began to bang on the walls, so that's when I had the police involved.
Since I'm a paying tenant and the tenant above me has a person who is not a relative and is not on the lease, what recourse do I have legally? I have already looked into "right of quiet enjoyment" but I was wondering if there are any other habitable clauses in NYS/NYC I can use in order to further this situation. I'm looking into getting an attorney and have them issue a demand letter.
It's really unfair that I get jolted awake after "quiet hours" which apparently the board doesn't care to enforce and I only get 4 hours of sleep a night due to this individual's antics...I pay rent and the person upstairs makes all this noise and she's not even allowed to live here under the lease!!
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
Since I'm a paying tenant and the tenant above me has a person who is not a relative and is not on the lease, what recourse do I have legally? I have already looked into "right of quiet enjoyment" but I was wondering if there are any other habitable clauses in NYS/NYC I can use in order to further this situation. I'm looking into getting an attorney and have them issue a demand letter.
It's really unfair that I get jolted awake after "quiet hours" which apparently the board doesn't care to enforce and I only get 4 hours of sleep a night due to this individual's antics...I pay rent and the person upstairs makes all this noise and she's not even allowed to live here under the lease!!
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!