Blattberg v. 52 & 58-27th Street, Jackson Heights, Inc.

2017 NY Slip Op 4557, 151 A.D.3d 493, 53 N.Y.S.3d 536

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: June 8, 2017
• Docket: 4207N 160383/15
• Status: Published

Opinion

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan M. Kenney, J.), entered July 27, 2016, which, inter alia, granted defendant’s motion to vacate a default judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The affidavit of defendant cooperative apartment’s president demonstrated a sufficient basis for personal knowledge, and otherwise made out a prima facie case on each prong for vacatur of the default judgment (cf. John v Arin Bainhridge Realty Corp., 147 AD3d 454 [1st Dept 2017]; CPLR 317).

Concur—Tom, J.P., Sweeny, Andrias, Moskowitz and Manzanet-Daniels, JJ.