Hi.
I've had a dog for a few years in a rent stabilized apartment in Brooklyn. My lease said "no pets", but when a lot of other people in the building got dogs, I talked to the super and he said it wasn't being enforced. So I got one too. Everyone in the building knows and loves my dog.
Two years later, instead of getting a lease renewal, I get a Lease Violation notice.
I spoke to a lot of people about this , and I now know about the Law "27-2009.1" should hopefully protect me. A clause can't be unenforced for 2 years, then suddenly enforced.
I'm worried though. I can't prove that the old super knew about my pets (he passed away last year) and I the new super can just say something like he's never seen me with my dog before. I read one story online where someone kept their apartment because the landlord "should have known" because the dog being walked outside, but another story said that the lease was violated because the super had only first seen the dog a month earlier.