Mendez v. 21 West 86th Street LLC

2017 NY Slip Op 2514, 148 A.D.3d 651, 49 N.Y.S.3d 299

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: March 30, 2017
• Docket: 3573 157759/14
• Status: Published

Opinion

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Gerald Lebovits, J.), entered on or about February 19, 2016, which, to the extent appealed from, denied the portion of defendants 21 West 86th Street LLC and Adellco Management, LLC’s CPLR 3212 motion that sought dismissal of plaintiffs’ second and third causes of action in the amended complaint, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and that part of the motion granted. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment accordingly.

Plaintiffs alleged in their second cause of action that defendants breached their promise to provide building-wide systems to the rent-stabilized tenants of the building. However, plaintiffs failed to submit any evidence that they had given any consideration in exchange for defendants’ alleged promise, and thus failed to raise an issue of fact as to whether they had a binding contract with defendants (see Presbyterian Church of Albany v Cooper, 112 NY 517, 520 [1889]; Delor Corp. v Quigley, Langer, Hames, Perlmutter, Mankes & Nuskind, Partnership, 287 AD2d 680, 682 [2d Dept 2001]).

The record refutes the third cause of action’s allegations that defendants removed the building’s rooftop garden and denied plaintiffs’ access to it. The record demonstrates that defendants renovated the rooftop garden and the recreational area on the roof for the benefit of the tenants.

We have considered the other arguments and find them unavailing.

Concur — Tom, J.P., Moskowitz, Feinman, Gische and Kapnick, JJ.