Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Werner Kornreich, J.), entered July 1, 2004, which, inter aha, granted plaintiff subtenant’s motion for partial summary judgment on his cause of action to enjoin defendants prime tenant and its principal from interfering with his removal of certain dental equipment from the premises, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Plaintiff was not a party to the prime lease and his sublease was oral. Under the circumstances, defendants cannot show that plaintiff specifically assumed defendants’ duties under the prime lease (see Finkelstein and Ferrara, Landlord and Tenant Practice in New York § 4:149, at 4-56 [West’s NY Prac Series, vol F,
