Jerweb Realty v Greaves (2018 NY Slip Op 50445(U))
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Jerweb Realty v Greaves
2018 NY Slip Op 50445(U) [59 Misc 3d 131(A)]
Decided on March 30, 2018
Appellate Term, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau
pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and will not be
published in the printed Official Reports.
Decided on March 30, 2018
SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE TERM, SECOND
DEPARTMENT, 2d, 11th and 13th JUDICIAL DISTRICTS
PRESENT: : MICHAEL L. PESCE, P.J., MICHELLE WESTON, DAVID ELLIOT, JJ
2015-2984 K C
NO.
Jerweb Realty, Respondent,
against
Roxanne Greaves, Appellant.
Larry Jeremias,
Nonparty-Respondent.
Brooklyn Legal Services (Vance Gathing, Esq.), for appellant.
Green & Cohen, P.C. (Adam M. Bernstein, Esq.), for respondent.
Larry Jeremias, nonparty-respondent (no brief filed).
Appeal from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Kings County (Marcia J.
Sikowitz, J.), entered March 12, 2015. The order, insofar as appealed from and as limited by the
brief, denied the branch of tenant's motion seeking to punish landlord and nonparty Larry
Jeremias, landlord's managing agent, for civil contempt for violating orders of the same court
dated September 4, 2014 and September 22, 2014, directing landlord to restore tenant's apartment
to a habitable condition.
ORDERED that the order entered March 12, 2015, insofar as appealed from, is affirmed,
without costs.
After tenant had been evicted pursuant to a nonpayment final judgment, landlord
immediately began to demolish tenant's apartment's bathroom and kitchen, rendering the
premises uninhabitable. By order dated September 4, 2014, the Civil Court granted a motion by