PETRE v. LUCIA (2025)

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.

In the Matterof Gheorghe PETRE, Petitioner–Appellant, v. Joseph LUCIA, et al., Respondents–Respondents.

3456

Decided: January 09, 2025

Moulton, J.P., Kapnick, Scarpulla, Mendez, O'Neill Levy, JJ.

Gheorghe Petre, appellant pro se.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Lyle E. Frank, J.), entered on or about April 16, 2024, which denied plaintiff's motion for a default judgment and dismissed the complaint without prejudice to the matter being re-filed in Bronx County, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The place of trial of an action in which the judgment demanded would affect the title to, or the possession, use, or enjoyment of real property, as here, is the county in which the subject of the action is situated (CPLR 507). Plaintiff contends that pursuant to CPLR 509, the place of trial is the county he designated. While in some cases CPLR 507 does not preclude the trial of an action affecting real property from taking place in a county other than the one where the real property is located, the general rule is to the contrary (see Moschera & Catalano, Inc. v. Advanced Structures Corp, 104 A.D.2d 306, 307 [1st Dept 1984]), and there is no reason to deviate from the general rule here.

We have considered plaintiff's remaining arguments and find them unavailing.

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