Payn v. Lyras

—• Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Martin Evans, J.), entered March 25, 1981, denying plaintiff-appellant’s motion for summary judgment and granting defendant-respondent’s cross motion seeking possession of the apartment, unanimously reversed, on the law, defendant-respondent’s cross motion denied, and plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment granted, with costs. Plaintiff, a psychiatrist, is in possession of the subject rent-stabilized apartment under a now-expired lease which provided that the apartment was to be occupied by plaintiff for “living purposes, and also for professional…