Robert Nocco recently moved out of his rent-controlled home, where his
parents had first lived around 50 years ago, the New York Times
reported, but it wasn’t of his own accord. The building’s owner, Dexter
Gurrieri, president of Vandenberg Real Estate, accused Nocco of
violating the terms of his rent-control agreement more than 30 years
ago. Turns out Nocco had signed an affidavit asserting that his parents
had moved out of the apartment in 1976, the same year he moved into the
space; in order to take over the rent-controlled unit, Nocco had to
have lived with his parents for two years before they move out. Nocco
asserts that his father lived in the unit almost 10 years after Nocco
moved in — so Nocco believes he should have been allowed to stay. But
Nocco, who paid $212 a month for the unit, one floor of a Brooklyn
Heights townhouse, took a settlement and moved on. [more]