Legal Opinion
120 Bay Street Realty Corp. v. City of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 8, 1978PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order appealed from should be reversed, with costs, and summary judgment granted in favor of the plaintiff, declaring that defendant occupies the subject premises as a month-to-month tenant rather than as a tenant under a valid and existing lease. We find as a matter of law that the letter of June 2, 1975 was merely an expression of intent to exercise the option to renew the lease at some future time, and was not in and of itself an exercise of that option. Since no further steps were taken by defendant prior to the expiration of the option clause in the…
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