Chronic Nonpayment Not Subject to 15-Day Cure Period; Chronic Nonpayment is Treated Differently from Occasional Nonpayment
The First Department explained the legal principles which apply to chronic nonpayment of rent as follows:
…[P]laintiff chronically failed to pay its rent, having forced defendant to bring 10 nonpayment proceedings over the last seven years. This is a breach of a substantial obligation under the lease…, and is a type of default that plaintiff cannot cure within the 15-day cure period provided for in the lease …. Accordingly, plaintiff was properly denied a Yellowstone injunction, since that relief requires a showing that plaintiff is able to cure…. Defendant was not limited to a nonpayment proceeding under the term of the lease that provided for such proceedings for nonpayment. Chronic nonpayment is a violation of a different type than occasional nonpayment. Nor can plaintiff rely on any defect of the notice of default, since no such notice is even necessary for an action based on chronic nonpayment…. Definitions Personal Fitness Inc v 133 E 58th St LLC, 2013 NY Slip Op 04892, 1st Dept 6-27-13