Case Name: Bay Park One Company, Appellant, v. Dave Crosby, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1981-04-13
Citations: 109 Misc. 2d 47
Docket Number: 
Parties: Bay Park One Company, Appellant, v Dave Crosby, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 109
Pages: 47–48

Head Matter:
Bay Park One Company, Appellant, v Dave Crosby, Respondent.
Supreme Court, Appellate Term, Second Department,
April 13, 1981
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Kenneth P. Mintz and Raymond M. DErasmo for appellant.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
Final judgment unanimously reversed, without costs, and matter remanded to the court below for a new trial.
A tenant is not entitled to recover consequential damages for a landlord's breach of the implied warranty of habitability (see Curry v New York City Housing Auth., 77 AD2d 534). The measure of damages for such a breach is the difference between the fair market value of the premises if they had been as warranted, or measured by the rent reserved under the lease, and the value of the premises during the period of the breach (see Park West Mgt. Corp. v Mitchell, 47 NY2d 316, cert den 444 US 992). In addition, where the lease so provides, a landlord is entitled to recover from the tenant, as additional rent, legal expenses incurred in the prosecution of a summary proceeding (1 Rasch, New York Landlord and Tenant [2d ed], § 358).
Concur: Buschmann, Kirsch and Kunzeman, JJ.