New York Laws
Article 7 - Landlord and Tenant
235-B - Warranty of Habitability.

(a) need not require any expert testimony; and
(b) shall, to the extent the warranty is breached or cannot be cured
by reason of a strike or other labor dispute which is not caused
primarily by the individual landlord or lessor and such damages are
attributable to such strike, exclude recovery to such extent, except to
the extent of the net savings, if any, to the landlord or lessor by
reason of such strike or labor dispute allocable to the tenant's
premises, provided, however, that the landlord or lesser has made a good
faith attempt, where practicable, to cure the breach.
(c) where the premises is subject to regulation pursuant to the local
emergency housing rent control law, the emergency tenant protection act
of nineteen seventy-four, the rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred
sixty-nine or the city rent and rehabilitation law, reduce the amount
awarded hereunder by the total amount of any rent reduction ordered by
the state division of housing and community renewal pursuant to such
laws or act, awarded to the tenant, from the effective date of such rent
reduction order, that relates to one or more matters for which relief is
awarded hereunder.

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