Case Name: Capital Cities Media, Inc., Doing Business as Fairchild Publications, Respondent, v. Yeshiva University, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1997-03-25
Citations: 237 A.D.2d 210
Docket Number: 
Parties: Capital Cities Media, Inc., Doing Business as Fairchild Publications, Respondent, v Yeshiva University, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 237
Pages: 210–211

Head Matter:
Capital Cities Media, Inc., Doing Business as Fairchild Publications, Respondent, v Yeshiva University, Appellant.
[655 NYS2d 480]

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Lew is Friedman, J.), entered June 14, 1996, which, inter alia, upon the parties' respective motions for summary judgment, declared in plaintiff tenant's favor that it was constructively evicted by defendant landlord, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Although plaintiff relocated its offices and ceased to actively use the leased space, it continued to pay rent in accordance with the lease after .defendant admittedly refused to negotiate surrender of the space and stated that it would hold plaintiff to the lease for its full term. Under these circumstances, defendant's entry, removal of plaintiff's property and commission of acts that fundamentally altered the space, rendering it unusable for any of the purposes allowed under the lease without substantial reconstruction, constituted a constructive eviction (see, Barash v Pennsylvania Term. Real Estate Corp., 26 NY2d 77, 82, 83). Concur—Sullivan, J. P., Milonas, Tom and Andrias, JJ.