Park-58 Corp. v. Reder

This holdover proceeding against the physician tenant is grounded upon the recent ruling that a *396doctor’s office, maintained at street level, in an apartment house, is a store (under Business Bent Law, § 8, subd. [gg], par. [1], as enacted on April 17, 1956, by L. 1956, ch. 735).1 (Sterling v. Lapidus, 17 Misc 2d 587, affd. without opinion Appellate Term, 1st Dept., N. Y. L. J., June 5,1959, p. 13, col. 1, motion for leave to appeal to Appellate Division granted 9 A D 2d 642.)

This ruling at once is at odds with our every-day experience. For decades thousand of doctors in New York City have had…