From Casetext: Smarter Legal Research

Hazlett v. Rahbar

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Mar 28, 2006
27 A.D.3d 384 (N.Y. App. Div. 2006)

Opinion

8180N.

March 28, 2006.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Barbara R. Kapnick, J.), entered October 13, 2005, which denied plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Jacob J. Goodman, New York, for appellant.

Rose Rose, New York (Kenneth E. Rosen of counsel), for respondents.

Before: Andrias, J.P., Sullivan, Williams, Gonzalez and Catterson, JJ., concur.


Even if plaintiff does have — as she alleges for the first time in her appellate brief — a wooden terrace overlooking the garden adjoining her ground-floor apartment, as opposed to simply access to the backyard garden, the court's denial of a preliminary injunction prohibiting defendant Massud Rahbar, the building owner, from creating a cellar door to the backyard would have been a provident exercise of discretion ( see Wellbilt Equip. Corp. v Red Eye Grill, 308 AD2d 411; Paine Chriscott v. Blair House Assoc., 70 AD2d 571). There is nothing in the lease plaintiff produced that mentions any agreement involving use of the backyard, and the paragraph on which she relies, pertaining to terraces and balconies, is simply a provision in a standard form which discusses the rules and regulations for the use of such a structure if one exists ( cf. Washburn v. 166 E. 96th St. Owners Corp., 166 AD2d 272). Nor has plaintiff demonstrated that exclusive use of the backyard/garden/terrace was a required service that must be maintained as part of her rent-stabilized tenancy ( see Administrative Code of City of NY § 26-517 [a] [6]).


Summaries of

Hazlett v. Rahbar

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Mar 28, 2006
27 A.D.3d 384 (N.Y. App. Div. 2006)
Case details for

Hazlett v. Rahbar

Case Details

Full title:ELIZABETH HAZLETT, Appellant, v. MASSUD RAHBAR et al., Respondents

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Mar 28, 2006

Citations

27 A.D.3d 384 (N.Y. App. Div. 2006)
2006 N.Y. Slip Op. 2314
812 N.Y.S.2d 61

Citing Cases

Palmer v. WSC Riverside Drive, LLC

There was no ambiguity in the lease, which controls the parties' rights and obligations. The lease referred…

Davidson v. 506 East 88th Street LLC

They argue that plaintiff's claim of `exclusive use' of the entire rear garden of the building is not…