Amtorg Trading Corp. v. Broadway & 56th Street Associates

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Peter Tom, J.), entered October 5, 1992, which denied plaintiffs motion for removal and consolidation of a related summary holdover proceeding pending in Civil Court, unanimously reversed, on the law, and plaintiffs motion granted, without costs.

*213Under terms of the Foreign Missions Act (22 USC § 4301 et seq.), Amtorg has been treated as a foreign mission of the Soviet Union and its successors and is not permitted to lease real property without the approval of the United States Department of State. Accordingly, in October 1987, the State Department leased…