Judge nixes Airbnb subletter’s eviction

Julia Marsh, Kevin Fasick
Wed, 18 Jun 2014 04:20:08 -0400

A court ruling this week could open the floodgates for Big ?Apple apartment dwellers to sublet via the controversial home-share website Airbnb. The potentially precedent-setting ruling by a Manhattan Housing Court judge nixed the eviction of a Financial District resident who had been subletting her apartment through the San Francisco-based accommodations site — even though...