
    In the Matter of Newport Associates, Inc., Respondent, v Nathan Leventhal, as Commissioner of the Department of Rent and Housing Maintenance, Appellant.
    Argued January 6, 1977;
    decided February 10, 1977
   Appeal dismissed, without costs, for mootness, upon the ground that the leased premises were voluntarily vacated by the tenant in June, 1975, and subsequent to the effective date of the Vacancy Decontrol Law (L 1971, ch 371, as amd by L 1974, ch 576) which provides for the decontrol of leaseholds vacated after June 30, 1971 (Local Emergency Housing Rent Control Law, § 5; L 1962, ch 21, § 1, subd 5, as amd).  