The motion court correctly found that a tax escalation clause such as the one at issue will not be read to impose responsibility on a tenant for "increases in real estate taxes resulting from improvements on the property redounding solely to the benefit of the landlord," and the addition of new floors to a building is considered such an improvement (see Credit Exch. v. 461 Eighth Ave. Assoc.,
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