Empire Cmty. Dev. v. Anjum

Full title: EMPIRE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, LLC, Plaintiff, v. MEH ANJUM; NEW YORK CITY…

Court: United States District Court, E.D. New York

Date published: Sep 25, 2023

1:22-cv-02576-ENV-SJB (E.D.N.Y. Sep. 25, 2023)

Opinion

1:22-cv-02576-ENV-SJB

09-25-2023

EMPIRE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, LLC, Plaintiff, v. MEH ANJUM; NEW YORK CITY ENVIROMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; Defendants.

The Honorable Eric N. Vitaliano, United States District Court Judge

JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE AND SALE

The Honorable Eric N. Vitaliano, United States District Court Judge

On the Summons in a Civil Action (the “Summons”) and Verified Complaint and (the “Complaint”) filed herein on May 5, 2022; on the Notice of Pendency filed in the Queens County Clerk's Office; and upon Plaintiff Empire Community Development, LLC's Motion for a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, pursuant to Rule 55(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure;

NOW, upon the Declaration of Regularity in Support of Motion for Default Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale and Memorandum of Law of Alan H. Weinreb, Esq., dated September 30, 2022; and on the Affidavit of Statement of Damages of Priscilla Serrato, sworn to the 27th day of September, 2022, the Court finds that;

The amount computed by the Court to be due on the Note (“Note”) and Mortgage is $138,960.91, including interest, as set forth in the Affidavit annexed to Plaintiff's Motion as Exhibit ‘C' as of August 29, 2022.

IT IS ORDERED AND ADJUDGED, that the mortgaged premises described in the Complaint and described in Schedule “A” annexed hereto and sold pursuant to this Judgment.

Together with all right, title and interest of the owner thereof, if any, in and to the land lying in the streets and road in front of the adjoining said premises, to the center line thereof.

Together with all fixtures and articles of personnel property annexed to, installed in, or used in connection with the mortgage premises, all as more fully set forth in the aforementioned mortgage, be sold in one parcel subject to the following any state of facts that an accurate survey may show; easements, covenants, restrictions or reservations or records, if any; zoning restrictions and any amendments thereto according to law now in force; existing violations and orders of the appropriate departments of any City, Town or Village, if any; the physical condition of the premises at the time of closing; and with any apportionments or adjustments; at public auction to be held on the steps of the Brooklyn Courthouse of the Eastern District of New York, located at 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York 11201 by and under the direction of Susan Ellen Rizos, Esq., who is hereby designated as Referee herein to sell the mortgaged premises in accordance with that purpose; that said Referee give public notice of the time and place of such sale in accordance with RPAPL §231 in Newsday newspaper and in the case the Plaintiff shall become the purchaser at the said sale, Plaintiff shall not be required to make any deposit thereon, that said Referee or her duly appointed designee, execute to the purchaser or purchasers on such a sale a deed of the premises sold, that in the event a third party other than the Plaintiff becomes the purchaser or purchasers at such sale, the closing of title shall be had thirty days after such sale unless otherwise stipulated by all parties to the sale; and it is further

ORDERED that said Referee or her duly appointed designee then deposit the balance of said proceeds of the sale in her own name as Referee in an FDIC Insured Bank and shall thereafter make the following payments and her checks drawn for that purpose shall be paid by said depository.

1^st The sum of $750.00 to said Referee for her fees herein.

2^nd The expenses of the sale and the advertising expenses as shown on the bills presented to said Referee and certified by her to be correct, duplicate copies of which shall be left with said depository.

3^rd And also the sum of $138,960.91 (inclusive of costs), the amount computed by the Court and adjudged to Plaintiff as aforesaid, with interest from August 29, 2022 and also the amount of any sums expended by Plaintiff, for taxes, assessments, water rates and sewer rents, with interest and penalties accrued thereon as allowed by the Note and Mortgage, or so much thereof as the purchase money of the mortgaged premises will pay of the same; and it is further

ORDERED AND ADJUDGED, that said Referee or her duly appointed designee shall take the receipt of Plaintiff or its attorney for the amounts paid as directed in item marked “3^rd” and shall file it with her report of sale. That said Referee or her duly appointed designee shall deposit the surplus monies, if any, with the aforesaid depository, within 5 days after the same shall be received and ascertainable, to the credit of this action, to be withdrawn only on the order of a Judge of this Court.

In the event that the Plaintiff or a governmental agency thereof is the purchaser of said mortgaged premises at said sale, or in the event that the rights of the purchaser at said sale and the terms of sale under this judgment shall be assigned to and be acquired by Plaintiff or any such governmental agency, and a valid assignment thereof be filed with the said Referee or her duly appointed designee shall not require Plaintiff or such governmental agency to pay in cash the amount bid at such sale, but shall execute and deliver to Plaintiff or such governmental agency a deed of the premises sold. Plaintiff or such governmental agency shall pay the amount specified in the items marked “1^st” and “2^nd” and shall also pay the amount of the aforesaid taxes, assessments, water rates, sewer rents and interest and penalties thereon, if any. Said Referee or her duly appointed designee shall apply the balance of the amount bid after deducting therefrom the aforesaid amount paid by Plaintiff or such governmental agency, to the amounts due Plaintiff in the item marked “3^rd”, and if there be a surplus over and above said amounts due Plaintiff, Plaintiff shall pay to said Referee or her duly appointed designee upon delivery of said Referee's Deed, the amount of such surplus, and said Referee or her duly appointed designees shall deposit said surplus as hereinabove directed.

Said Referee or her duly appointed designee shall make her report of such sale and shall file it with the Clerk of the Court with all convenient speed. If the proceeds of such sale be insufficient to pay the amount adjudged due to Plaintiff with the expenses, interests and costs as aforesaid, said Referee or her duly appointed designee shall specify the amount of such deficiency in her report of sale, the Plaintiff shall recover from Defendants the whole deficiency of so much thereof as the Court may determine to be just and equitable of the residue of the mortgaged debt remaining unsatisfied after a sale of the mortgaged premises and the application of the proceeds thereof, provided a motion for a deficiency judgment shall be made as prescribed by section 1371 of the New York Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law within the time limited therein, and the amount thereof is determined and awarded by an order of this Court as provided for in said section; and it is further

ORDERED AND ADJUDGED, that the purchaser at said sale be let into possession on production of the said Referee or her duly appointed designee's deed; and it is further

ORDERED AND ADJUDGED, that each and all of the Defendants in this action, and all the persons claiming under them, or nay or either of them, after filing of the notice of the pendency of this action, be and hereby be forever barred and foreclosed of all right, title, claim, interest, lien and equity of redemption in said mortgaged premises and each and every party thereof; and it is further

ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED, that said premises is to be sold in one parcel in “as is” physical order and condition, subject to any state of facts that an inspection of the premises would disclose, any state of facts that an accurate survey of the premises would show; any covenants, restrictions, declarations, reservations, easements, rights of way and public utility agreements of record, if any; any building and zoning ordinances of the municipality in which the mortgaged premises is located and possible violations of same; any rights of tenants or person in possession of the subject premises; prior lien(s) of record, if any, except those liens addressed in section 1354 of the Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law. Said premises commonly known as 89-07 Vanderveer Street, Queens Village, NY 11427. A description of said mortgaged premises is annexed hereto and made a part hereof as Schedule “A”.

SCHEDULE A

DESCRIPTION

Block 10657 Lot 21

ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows:

BEGINNING at a point on the Easterly side of Vanderveer Street (214th Place) distant 60 feet Southerly from the corner formed by the intersection of said side of Vanderveer Street with the Southerly side of 89th Avenue (Chestnut Street), as said street and avenue are laid out on a certain map entitled “Map of Property belonging to the Queensboro Development Corporation in the 4th Ward, Borough of Queens, New York City and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens on April 19, 1923, under filed Map Number 4305 and from said point of beginning;

RUNNING THENCE Easterly parallel with 89th Avenue and part of the distance through a party wall, 100 feet;

THENCE Southerly parallel with Vanderveer Street, 20 feet;

THENCE Westerly parallel with 89th Avenue, 100 feet to the said Easterly side of Vanderveer Street;

THENCE Northerly along said Vanderveer Street, 20 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING.

Premises known as 89-07 Vanderveer Street, Queens Village, New York