Croxton Collaborative Architects, P.C. v. T-C 475 Fifth Avenue, LLC

*480Plaintiff commenced the action less than five months after defendant purchased the premises and assumed the lease, alleging that defendant has failed to remediate the “derelict” and “war-torn appearance” of the premises, in breach of various provisions of the lease. The complaint alleges, inter aha, that “more than four years” after a gut-level renovation was commenced in 2007, the lobby “continues to appear derelict, forbidding and abandoned,” the walls “continue to be raw,” and “[m]ost of the elevators do not work.” Plaintiff seeks $2 million in compensatory damages, as well as punitive…