Matter of Mount Manresa

134 A.D.3d 721, 19 N.Y.S.3d 770

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: December 2, 2015
• Docket: 2014-01124
• Status: Published

Opinion

In a proceeding pursuant to Not-For-Profit Corporation Law § 511 for permission to sell certain real property to Mount Builders, LLC, the Committee to Save Mount Manresa, Joseph G. Canepa, Barbara Sanchez, Regina Norkus, Diane Rizzo, Diane Savino, and Nicole Malliotakis appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Troia, J.), dated January 7, 2014, which granted the petition and authorized the sale.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with one bill of costs to the petitioner-respondent and the respondents-respondents appearing separately and filing separate briefs.

In this special proceeding pursuant to Not-For-Profit Corporation Law § 511, Mount Manresa petitioned for leave to sell 15.43 acres of property located on Staten Island. The appellants, the Committee to Save Mount Manresa, Joseph G. Canepa, Barbara Sanchez, Regina Norkus, Diane Rizzo, Diane Savino, and Nicole Malliotakis, opposed the petition. The Supreme Court granted the petition and authorized the sale.

Since the appellants are not members of Mount Manresa, they lack standing to oppose the petition (see Congregation Beth Medrosh of Monsey, Inc. v Rolling Acres Chestnut Ridge, LLC, 101 AD3d 797, 800 [2012]; Congregation Atzei Chaim v 26 Adar N.B. Corp., 27 AD3d 412, 412-413 [2006]; Matter of Bridge to Spiritual Freedom, 304 AD2d 574 [2003]; Matter of Friends World Coll. v Nicklin, 249 AD2d 393 [1998]; see also Female Academy of the Sacred Heart v Doane Stuart School, 91 AD3d 1254, 1256 [2012]). In any event, the evidence established that the terms of the sale were fair and reasonable, and in the furtherance of the petitioner’s purpose and the interests of its members (see N-PCL 511 [d]; Matter of Prospect Hgts. Hous. Dev. Fund Corp., 91 AD3d 956, 956-957 [2012]; Scher v Yeshivath Makowa Corp., 54 AD3d 839 [2008]). Rivera, J.P., Dickerson, Cohen and Miller, JJ., concur.