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Irreparable Injury to Plaintiffs Not Demonstrated and Balance of Equities Did Not Favor Plaintiffs Who Sought Injunction Prohibiting Landlord from Proceeding with a Water-Damage-Repair Plan Plaintiffs Thought Inadequate

In a full-fledged opinion by Justice Saxe, the First Department affirmed the denial of a preliminary injunction where plaintiffs-tenants sought to prohibit the landlord from going forward with repairs necessitated by water damage. The landlord proposed a repair-plan which involved the installation of insulation in the walls which would reduce the interior space of the 1400 square-foot apartment by about 50 square feet.  The plaintiffs wanted the exterior walls completely removed and replaced.  The First Department applied the standard criteria for injunctive relief and determined plaintiffs did not show irreparable harm and the balance of equities did not favor plaintiffs:

…[A]n alteration to residential quarters may be so minor that even though the tenant may be entitled to some form of compensation, a finding of irreparable harm is not warranted. Cases in which interference was sufficient to justify either injunctive relief or orders preventing the work from proceeding … do not preclude the possibility that interference in other circumstances may be so minimal as to fail to justify injunctive relief. Plaintiff failed to make a clear showing that the possible square footage reduction, a small fraction of the total footprint of the apartment, was more than de minimis. This conclusion, however, does not preclude compensation by other means.

Moreover, the balance of the equities does not weigh in plaintiff’s favor. Although plaintiff proposed an alternative method of performing the work on the exterior, she failed to respond to defendant’s assertion that this method would entail substantial extra expenses that defendant was under a fiduciary duty to avoid imposing on the other cooperative shareholders … . The claimed impact to plaintiff of the planned modifications to her apartment, most of which will be compensable based on plaintiffs’ breach of contract theory, is far outweighed by the expense to the co-op of demolishing and rebuilding exterior walls, especially when those walls have already been repaired and treated for waterproofing. Goldstone v Gracie Terrace Apt Corp, 2013 NY Slip Op 05725, 1st Dept 8-27-13

 

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