DHCR Decisions          DB410250RT                                             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.: DB410250RT                  SEBASTIAN STUART              RENT ADMINISTRATOR'S                                                DOCKET NO.: BJ410105B                                 PETITIONER            ----------------------------------x                                                                                                    ORDER AND OPINION DENYING PETITION FOR ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW                                           The above-named tenant filed a timely petition for          administrative review of an order issued on February 3, 1989          concerning the housing accommodation known as 202 West 84th Street,          New York, New York, Apartment 3W, wherein the Administrator          determined the tenants' joint complaint of a reduction of services          building-wide.  The tenant's petition was served on the owner.               Based on the results of an inspection of the subject premises          conducted by a DHCR inspector who confirmed the existence of          various defective conditions, the Rent Administrator determined          that there had been a reduction of services, directed that the          services be restored, and ordered a reduction of each tenants'          legal regulated rent by the percentage of the most recent          guidelines adjustments for the tenants' lease which commenced          before the effective date of the rent reduction, January 1, 1988.               In his petition for administrative review, the tenant asserts          that he is a rent controlled tenant and requests that the order be          amended to reflect specific dollar amounts for each of the          conditions found, in accordance with the Rent and Eviction          Regulations.  However, the record fails to support the tenant's          bare assertion that he is a rent controlled tenant.  Moreover, an          examination of DHCR registration records confirms that the          petitioner is a rent stabilized tenant.  There is therefore no          warrant to modify the Administrator's order as to this tenant.               THEREFORE, in accordance with the Rent Stabilization Law and          Code and the Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974, it is,                 ORDERED, that this petition be, and the same hereby is,          denied, and that the Rent Administrator's order be, and the same          hereby is, affirmed, as to this tenant.          ISSUED:                                 ___________________                                                        Joseph A. D'Agosta                                                  Deputy Commissioner