Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York January 5, 2010 (Island Auto Seat Cover Co. v. Minunni)

The plaintiff, Island Auto Seat Cover Company, Inc., as tenant, and the defendants Vito Minunni and Estelle Jane Minunni, as landlords (hereinafter together the defendant landlord) entered into a lease dated October 2000 (hereinafter the lease) for certain commercial space in a rear building (hereinafter the demised premises) located on Bay Street in Staten Island (hereinafter the subject