Commercial Tenant Loses Bid to Prevent Lease Termination Following Superstorm Sandy

MINEOLA, N.Y. — A state court judge in New York has denied a request by two commercial tenants to enjoin their landlord from taking steps to terminate a lease on properties that were badly damaged by Superstorm Sandy.

In a ruling entered April 9 in Nassau County Supreme Court, Justice Jerome C. Murphy ruled that Gull Realty Inc. and Gull Properties Inc. waited too long to seek injunctive relief after their landlord, Wirthlock Realty Corp., served the companies with notices to terminate their lease agreements for non-payment of monthly rent and arrears.

The Gull companies had been tenants of the …