Opinion
April 18, 1994
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Westchester County (LaCava, J.).
Ordered that the order and judgment is modified, on the law, by deleting the provisions thereof which granted the petitioner a rent increase for the backflow preventer and laundry room renovations, and substituting therefor a provision confirming the DHCR's determination in its entirety and dismissing the petition; as so modified, the order and judgment is affirmed, with costs to the appellant-respondent.
On the record before us, we find that the DHCR's determination denying that portion of the petitioner's application which was for a major capital improvement rent increase relating to the installation of a backflow preventer and for laundry room repairs was not irrational or unreasonable. Thus, the determination must be upheld (see, Matter of Ansonia Residents Assn. v New York State Div. of Hous. Community Renewal, 75 N.Y.2d 206; Matter of Salvati v Eimicke, 72 N.Y.2d 784). Bracken, J.P., Sullivan, Miller and Hart, JJ., concur.