Matter of Stuyvesant Square Thrift Shop, Inc. v. Tax Comm'n of the City of New York

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs, for the reasons stated in the opinion of that court by Justice Max Bloom.

In addition we note the distinction between the facts on the instant appeal and Matter of St. Joseph’s Health Center Props. v Srogi (51 NY2d 127), where we held that real property used by a corporation exclusively for providing hospital personnel with housing was sufficiently incidental to the hospital’s operation to be within the statutory requirement that it be used exclusively for hospital purposes (see Real Property Tax…