Cuomo gives tenants 60 days to answer eviction notices

Late afternoon on Election Day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo set a deadline for tenants to answer eviction petitions. His executive order stipulates that any summary eviction proceeding for nonpayment of rent pending as of Nov. 3 must be answered within 60 days. The order does not apply to holdover evictions and others for nonpayment of rent. The extension comes as a pause on Civil Court deadlines was about to run out — which would have opened

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