Bernstein v Beresford Apts., Inc.
2009 NY Slip Op 04115 [62 AD3d 593]
May 26, 2009
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, July 1, 2009


Martin Bernstein et al., Appellants,
v
Beresford Apartments, Inc., Defendant, and Robert Weinstein, Respondent.

[*1] Horing, Welikson & Rosen, P.C., Williston Park (Niles C. Welikson of counsel), for appellants.

McGuireWoods LLP, New York (Marshall Beil of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Barbara R. Kapnick, J.), entered August 1, 2008, which denied plaintiff tenants' motion to compel defendant tenant's performance of a stipulation of settlement to soundproof portions of his apartment, with leave to plaintiffs to resume prosecution of this action for breach of the warranty of habitability and injunctive relief as if there were no stipulation, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The motion was properly denied on the ground that defendant tenant's remaining performance obligations under the stipulation to soundproof portions of his apartment were expressly conditioned on an event that did not occur, namely, defendant cooperative's "rapid agreement" to other work he wanted to do in his apartment, and implicitly conditioned on plaintiffs' acceptance of defendant tenant's soundproofing plans, which was never given (see Oppenheimer & Co. v Oppenheim, Appel, Dixon & Co., 86 NY2d 685, 690 [1995]). We have considered plaintiffs' other arguments, including that defendant tenant's soundproofing plans did not include portions of his apartment covered by the stipulation, and find them unavailing. Concur—Friedman, J.P., Sweeny, Nardelli, Acosta and Richter, JJ.