DHCR Decisions                                 STATE OF NEW YORK                     DIVISION OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL                           OFFICE OF RENT ADMINISTRATION                                    GERTZ PLAZA                              92-31 UNION HALL STREET                              JAMAICA, NEW YORK 11433     ------------------------------------X     IN THE MATTER OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE :  ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW     APPEAL OF                              DOCKET NO.: BC 110102-RO                                         :                                              DISTRICT RENT ADMINISTRATOR'S     THREE TOWERS ASSOCIATES                DOCKET NO.: 017172                           PETITIONER    :     ------------------------------------X                                       ORDER AND OPINION GRANTING PETITION FOR ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW                 AND MODIFYING DISTRICT RENT ADMINISTRATOR'S ORDER     On  March  5,  1987,  the  above-named  owner   filed   a   petition   for     administrative review of an order issued  on  January  30,  1987,  by  the     District Rent Administrator concerning the housing accommodation known  as     Apartment 15-T at 269 Grand Central Parkway, Floral Park, New York.     The Commissioner has reviewed all of the evidence in the  record  and  has     carefully considered that portion of the record  relevant  to  the  issues     raised by the petition for administrative review.     On August 7, 1984 the subject tenant filed an objection to  the  apartment     registration, claiming, among other things, that the registration filed by     the owner omitted, among  other  items,  an  alarm  system  as  a  service     provided by the owner.     In answer the owner asserted, among other things, that the intrusion alarm     system had never been activated.     In the order hereunder review, the District Rent Administrator determined,     among other things, that an alarm system was a  service  provided  by  the     owner and directed that the registration be amended accordingly.     In  this  petition,  the   owner   requests   that   the   District   Rent     Administrator's order be modified to reflect that an alarm system is not a     service which the owner is required to provide at  the  subject  premises,     since it has never been installed.     The Commissioner is of the opinion this petition should be granted.     The  record  discloses  that  both  during  the  proceeding   before   the     Administraotr and on administrative appeal, the owner specifically  denied     that an alarm system is a service provided by  the  owner  asserting  that     such a system had never been  installed  or  activated.   The  tenant  was     served with a copy of the owner's petition, but did not  respond  thereto.     Based on the tenant's failure to respond to the  owner's  assertions,  the     Commissioner finds that an alarm system is not a service provided  by  the     owner.           DOCKET NUMBER: BC 110102-RO     The Administrator's order is hereby modified accordingly.     THEREFORE, in accordance with the Rent Stabilization Law and Code, it is     ORDERED, that this petition be, and the same hereby is, granted  and  that     the District Rent Administrator's  order  be,  and  the  same  hereby  is,     modified as hereinabove indicated.     ISSUED:                                                                                                               ELLIOT SANDER                                          Deputy Commissioner