Case Name: 230-79 Equity, Inc., Appellant, v. Robert Mancuso et al., Defendants, and Alan Spigelman et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2012-05-31
Citations: 95 A.D.3d 785
Docket Number: 
Parties: 230-79 Equity, Inc., Appellant, v Robert Mancuso et al., Defendants, and Alan Spigelman et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 95
Pages: 785–785

Head Matter:
230-79 Equity, Inc., Appellant, v Robert Mancuso et al., Defendants, and Alan Spigelman et al., Respondents.
[945 NYS2d 294]—

Opinion:
Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Debra A. James, J.), entered December 9, 2010, which, inter alia, granted defendant 240-79 Owners Corp.'s motion for summary judgment declaring that the cost of repairing and maintaining the subject common retaining wall shall be divided proportionately among only the parties whose properties touch upon the now damaged section of the wall and that, going forward, those parties are responsible pro rata for the maintenance and repair of only that section of the wall that touches their properties, and so declared, and granted summary judgment dismissing all causes of action, counterclaims, and cross claims against defendants Alan Spigelman and Diane Spigelman, Edward Kreps and Sharon Kreps, defendants Edmund Stevens, Jr., Shari Ream Stevens, Barry L. Solar, as trustees of the Edmund Stevens, Jr. qualified terminable interest trust for Shari Ream Stevens, and defendants Robert Mancuso, Harriet Stein Mancuso, and Bernard and Bernice Stein (collectively, 78th Street defendants), unanimously affirmed, with costs.
The motion court correctly determined that the cost of repairing and maintaining the common retaining wall should be divided proportionately among those parties whose properties touch upon the damaged section of the wall and that prospectively the parties will be responsible pro rata for the maintenance and repair of only that section of the wall that touches their property (see Administrative Code of City of NY § 28-305.1.1; Bauer v Lovelace, 272 App Div 820 [1947]).
The 78th Street defendants demonstrated that the damaged section of the wall that is the subject of this action is located on the portion of the wall that abuts plaintiffs, 240-79 Owners Corp.'s, and defendant GBL 78th Street LLC's properties. There is no support in the record for plaintiff's assertion that the damage extends to portions of the wall that abut the 78th Street defendants' respective properties. Concur — Tom, J.P., Andrias, Saxe, Moskowitz and Acosta, JJ. [Prior Case History: 2010 NY Slip Op 33089(H).]