N.Y. Penal Law § 241.07

§ 241.07 Aggravated harassment of a rent regulated tenant.\n An owner is guilty of aggravated harassment of a rent regulated tenant\nwhen:\n 1. With intent to induce three or more rent regulated tenants\noccupying different housing accommodations in two or more residential\nbuildings to vacate such housing accommodations, such owner\nintentionally engages in a systematic ongoing course of conduct that:\n (a) impairs the habitability of such housing accommodations; or\n (b) creates or maintains a condition which endangers the safety or\nhealth of one or more of the dwellings' rent regulated tenants; or\n (c) is reasonably likely to interfere with or disturb, and does\ninterfere with or disturb, the comfort, repose, peace or quiet of one or\nmore of such rent regulated tenants in their use and occupancy of such\nhousing accommodation including, but not limited to, the interruption or\ndiscontinuance of essential services.\n 2. Such owner commits the crime of harassment of a rent regulated\ntenant in the first degree as defined in section 241.05 of this article\nand has previously been convicted within the preceding five years of\nsuch crime.\n The good faith commencement and pursuit of a lawful eviction action by\nan owner against a rent regulated tenant in a court of competent\njurisdiction shall not, by itself, constitute a "systematic ongoing\ncourse of conduct" in violation of paragraph (c) of subdivision one of\nthis section.\n Aggravated harassment of a rent regulated tenant is a class D felony.\n