72A Realty Associates, L.P. v. Mercado, 46 Misc. 3d 59 (2014)

This holdover summary proceeding, commenced in January 2013, seeks to recover over $52,000 in rent arrears dating back to July 2007. So far as appears from the summary judgment record, the rent deficiency stems from the parties’ long-standing dispute over the entitlement of tenant’s adult daughter, respondent Maritza Mercado, to assume or succeed to the tenant’s *61stabilized leasehold, and more specifically from tenant’s insistence that landlord accept rent directly from Maritza and landlord’s refusal to do so.