80 Varick St. Group, L.P. v MacPherson
2013 NY Slip Op 00009 [102 AD3d 405]
January 3, 2013
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, February 27, 2013


80 Varick Street Group, L.P., Respondent,
v
Donald MacPherson, Appellant.

[*1] Jeffrey S. Ween & Associates, New York (Jeffrey S. Ween of counsel), for appellant.

Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman LLP, New York (Magda L. Cruz of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard F. Braun, J.), entered May 7, 2012, which, inter alia, granted plaintiff's cross motion for summary judgment on its cause of action for ejectment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendant's mezzanine was a breach of a substantial obligation of his tenancy that was not waivable in light of both its illegality (see e.g. 2 W. 32nd St. Corp. v Levine, 199 Misc 1020, 1021 [App Term, 1st Dept 1951]) and the specific non-waiver clause in the lease which provided that acceptance of rent does not waive a violation.

We have considered defendant's other contentions and find them unavailing. Concur—Gonzalez, P.J., Friedman, Saxe, Richter and Abdus-Salaam, JJ.