Case Name: Robert Guardia, Doing Business as Printing Products, Appellant, v. 250 West Street Corp. et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1994-06-02
Citations: 205 A.D.2d 306
Docket Number: 
Parties: Robert Guardia, Doing Business as Printing Products, Appellant, v 250 West Street Corp. et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 205
Pages: 306–306

Head Matter:
Robert Guardia, Doing Business as Printing Products, Appellant, v 250 West Street Corp. et al., Respondents.
[613 NYS2d 10]

Opinion:
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Burton Sherman, J.), entered on or about April 9, 1993, dismissing the complaint in this action by plaintiff tenant against defendant landlord for breach of the covenant of quiet enjoyment, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
In view of the lease provisions prohibiting the tenant from assigning the lease without the landlord's written consent and precluding a finding of the landlord's waiver of such requirement on the basis of its acceptance of rent with knowledge of a violation, we agree with the IAS Court that the purported assignment of the lease by original plaintiff Guardia to his wholly-owned corporation, substituted plaintiff Ren-Cris Litho, Inc., was not valid (see, Jefpaul Garage Corp. v Presbyterian Hosp., 61 NY2d 442), and, there thus being no landlord-tenant relationship between Ren-Cris Litho and defendant, the action was properly dismissed. Concur—Carro, J. P., Wailach, Ross, Rubin and Tom, JJ.