Michaels v. Macan Estates, Inc.

Defendant owns and operates a seventeen-story apartment house at Broadway and 106th Street. There are 176 tenants in the building. Thirty-four of the tenants are in possession under the Blumberg form of lease which provides that the landlord will furnish “ elevator service.” Of the remaining 142 tenants, 16 have the so-called Beal Estate Board form of lease and the other 126 are statutory tenants whose terms under Beal Estate Board forms of lease have expired, the material portions of which are carried forward into these statutory tenancies (Stern v. Equitable Trust Co., 238 N. Y. 267). The…