Helmsley-Spear, Inc. v. Melville Corp.

Friedmann, J.,

dissents and votes to affirm the order appealed from, with the following memorandum: The evidence in the record establishes that in late 1986 and early 1987 the plaintiff’s agents endeavored to find suitable office space in Westchester County for the defendants, and that they introduced the defendants’ real estate manager, Leonard DiPippo, to the Dictaphone property on February 9, 1987. Moreover, the plaintiff’s agents proposed that the defendants’ executive office space could be expanded by construction on the building’s adjoining parcel of vacant land. In addition, the…