J.W. Mays, Inc. v. Snyder Fulton Street, LLC

*573“[A] contract must be read as a whole in order to determine its purpose and intent, and . . . single clauses cannot be construed by taking them out of their context and giving them an interpretation apart from the contract of which they are a part” (.Matter of Friedman, 64 AD2d 70, 81 [1978] [internal quotation marks and citation omitted]; see Aimco Chelsea Land v Bassey, 6 AD3d 367, 368 [2004]). Furthermore, “[i]n interpreting the provisions of a lease, the court should refrain from rewriting the lease under the guise of construction, should not construe the language of the lease in such a…