420 Riverside Drive v. Ettinger

OPINION OF THE COURT

Order dated June 26, 2002 affirmed, with $10 costs.

*108In these holdover proceedings consolidated for disposition below, landlord, a cooperative corporation, seeks to recover two cellar spaces leased to Thomas Ettinger, who is also the non-purchasing rent-controlled tenant of two joined eleventh-floor apartments in the building. Civil Court properly rejected tenant’s argument that the cellar spaces are subject to rent regulation because he used them as “ancillary living space” appurtenant to the rent-controlled apartments. The rooms at issue are designated as storage space on…