The New York City housing court system comprises 5 regional branches for each of the 5 boroughs of Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island, and the Bronx. Cases are heard depending on the location of the home involved.

Queens housing court is located in the Jamaica neighborhood of the county, in a relatively new building with modern design. Seventeen judges hear around two hundred cases a day, though often a case will be pushed back for another day due to a number of reasons.

Unlike what one may suppose, in a common situation one doesn’t instantly go to trial, but first engages in what is commonly known as resolution, a technique whereby the court tries to bring the 2 disputing parties together in accord so as to avert an actual trial. The court hopes to cut back on its workload and backlog, naturally, but this is an entirely reasonable step in the interests of fairness.

Often , however , the entire reason a situation is at court to begin with is that communication and trust has fully broken down, or that perspectives are so irreconcilable that an independent third party’s perspective becomes necessary. Unlike what one may imagine from watching TV, housing cases do not often involve juries, and are virtually always adjudicated by the judge alone.

thus just as frequently as not a case continues onto a trial itself. During the resolution phase, a court attorney, who works for the judge, will hear out the two parties and attempt to broker a settlement. If that is not practicable a trial date is set, but due to backlog it can be weeks before the matter is revisited. Dependent on the exact circumstances, it could be in either the tenant’s or the landlord’s or both’s, even best interests to avoid trial and agree on the spot.

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