35 Park Ave. Corp. v. Campagna

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs. The cause of action to rescind the lease between plaintiff corporation as landlord and defendants as tenants, interposed more than six years after the execution of the lease, is time barred (see CPLR 213). Plaintiff’s reliance on section 235-c of the Real Property Law, enacted in July, 1976 after this action was commenced, is misplaced. That section, which provides *815that a court may grant relief from an unconscionable lease or clause, does not revive a claim already time barred. An intent on the…