Opinion
2013-11-19
Barbara Kulig HOCHMULLER, Plaintiff–Appellant, v. BELLWEST MANAGEMENT CORPORATION, et al., Defendants–Respondents.
Barbara Kulig Hochmuller, appellant pro se. James R. Pigott, Jr., New York, for respondents.
Barbara Kulig Hochmuller, appellant pro se. James R. Pigott, Jr., New York, for respondents.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Geoffrey D. Wright, J.), entered October 5, 2012, which denied plaintiff's motion for a stay of Housing Court proceedings and for the court to recuse itself, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The court properly declined to stay proceedings in Housing Court. As noted by the motion court, plaintiff had it within her power to avoid any eviction proceedings by executing a renewal lease for her studio apartment and then pursue her request to be relocated to a renovated one-bedroom apartment in the subject building.
The court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to recuse itself ( see People v. Moreno, 70 N.Y.2d 403, 521 N.Y.S.2d 663, 516 N.E.2d 200 [1987] ). MAZZARELLI, J.P., SAXE, MOSKOWITZ, DeGRASSE, GISCHE, JJ., concur.