{"id":220808,"date":"2026-05-05T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220808\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:29:08","slug":"free-people-sheds-6-million-damages-ruling-in-nyc-rental-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220808\/","title":{"rendered":"Free People Sheds $6 Million Damages Ruling in NYC Rental Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women\u2019s clothing chain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepeople.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Free People<\/a>, a subsidiary of Urban Outfitters, was entitled to not pay rent at one of its New York City stores for three months during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Second Circuit <a href=\"https:\/\/aboutblaw.com\/blEJ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruled<\/a> Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The decision reverses a lower court order awarding more than $6.7 million in damages to the landlord of the store that was located on the border of Manhattan\u2019s Chelsea neighborhood and the Meatpacking District. New York\u2019s emergency orders prevented Free People of PA LLC from operating its business from March to June 2020, triggering the lease\u2019s takings provision and excusing the retailer from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s clothing chain Free People, a subsidiary of Urban Outfitters, was entitled to not pay rent at one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16964,8676,15309,8801,9,56,63,65,64,87033,45502],"class_list":["post-220808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-breach-of-contract","tag-coronavirus","tag-damages","tag-leasing","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-summary-judgment","tag-takings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}