Matter of 49 E. 21 LLC v C.H. Schmitt & Co., Inc.

Matter of 49 E. 21 LLC v C.H. Schmitt & Co., Inc. 2007 NY Slip Op 10043 [46 AD3d 391] December 20, 2007 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, February 13, 2008

In the Matter of 49 East 21 LLC, Respondent,
v
C.H. Schmitt & Co., Inc., et al., Respondents, and Danica Plumbing & Heating, Appellant.

—[*1] Allyn & Fortuna LLP, New York City (Paula Lopez of counsel), for appellant.

Westermann Hamilton Sheehy Aydelott & Keenan, LLP, Garden City (Stephen J. Gillespie of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert D. Lippmann, J.), entered October 5, 2006, which, to the extent appealed from, granted petitioner's motion to vacate respondent Danica's notice under mechanic's lien law, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The lien named the subject property as a whole without identifying the individual condominium units (see Lien Law § 9 [7]), and purported to place liens on the building's common areas without the consent of all individual condo unit purchasers (see Real Property Law § 339-l [1]), thus warranting its vacatur (Lien Law § 19 [6]; see Northeast Restoration Corp. v K & J Constr. Co., 304 AD2d 306 [2003]). Concur—Lippman, P.J., Mazzarelli, Saxe, Williams and Buckley, JJ. [See 2006 NY Slip Op 30034(U).]