Broadway Central Securities Corp. v. Visalia Restaurant Co.

Genung, J.:

This is a summary proceeding instituted by the landlord to remove the tenant and undertenants from the possession of certain premises known as the basement in the building located at 209 West Fifty-first street, in the borough of Manhattan, city of New York, under the provisions of the Civil Practice Act (§ 1410, subd. 5). That section provides that a tenant may be removed from real property “ Where the demised premises, or any part thereof, are used or occupied as a bawdyhouse, or house or place of assignation for lewd persons, or for purposes of prostitution, or for any illegal…