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195 B Owner LLC v Anthropologie Inc. (2023 NY Slip Op
50646(U))

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195 B Owner LLC v Anthropologie Inc.

2023 NY Slip Op 50646(U) [79 Misc 3d 127(A)]

Decided on June 30, 2023

Appellate Term, First Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting
Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and will not be
published in the printed Official Reports.

Decided on June 30, 2023
SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE TERM, FIRST
DEPARTMENT

PRESENT: Brigantti, J.P., Michael, James, JJ.

570093/23

195 B Owner LLC,
Petitioner-Landlord-Appellant, 
againstAnthropologie Inc.,
Respondent-Tenant-Respondent.
Landlord appeals from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, New
York County (Ilana J. Marcus, J.), dated November 21, 2022, which denied its motion
for summary judgment and granted tenant's cross motion for summary judgment
dismissing the petition in a nonpayment summary proceeding, and from the ensuing final
judgment (same court and Judge), entered December 29, 2022, awarding tenant
$143,914.52, inclusive of interest, costs and disbursements.
Per Curiam.
Final Judgment (Ilana J. Marcus, J.), entered December 29, 2022, reversed, with $30
costs, tenant's cross motion for summary judgment denied, petition reinstated, and matter
remanded to Civil Court for further proceedings. Appeal from order (Ilana J. Marcus, J.),
dated November 21, 2022, dismissed, without costs, as subsumed in the appeal from the
final judgment.
Tenant's cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the commercial nonpayment
petition should have been denied. The record so far developed is insufficient to establish
as a matter of law that the leased premises, located at 195 Broadway, were subject to a
"taking" within the meaning of Section 20 of the governing lease, so as to suspend
tenant's obligation to pay rent. Pursuant to Section 20, a "taking" occurs if tenant is
"denied or deprived of either the use, occupancy and/or enjoyment of the Leased Space
and/or the ability to operate its business thereon or therefrom by action or decree of any
lawful power or authority." While tenant argues that the Governor's COVID-19
Executive Orders forbidding in-person work constituted a "taking" within the meaning of
Section 20, the record is unclear as to the nature and extent, if any, of the tenant's use of
the premises during the disputed March 22, 2020 through June 22, 2020 period, or, stated
differently, whether tenant was "deprived of all use or occupancy of the leased space"
during that period (Delshah 60 Ninth, LLC v Free People of PA, LLC, US Dist
Ct, SD NY, No. 20-CV-5905, Furman, J., 2022]).
In light of this disposition, we do not reach the remaining arguments.
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE COURT.
I concur I concur I concurDecision Date: June 30, 2023