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EDWARD BORG, ROBERT BECHT, GEORGE TERRANOVA & CARL TERRANOVA, CO-TRUSTEES, UNDER WILL OF VINCENT TERRANOVA, DECEASED, pet-land-res, v. THOMAS L. FEELEY, res-tent-app, -AND- DAVID STEWART, res-und

17-208. EDWARD BORG, ROBERT BECHT, GEORGE TERRANOVA & CARL TERRANOVA, CO-TRUSTEES, UNDER WILL OF VINCENT TERRANOVA, DECEASED, pet-land-res, v. THOMAS L. FEELEY, res-tent-app, -AND- DAVID STEWART, res-und — Order (Erika M. Edwards, J.), dated November 18, 2016, reversed, with $10 costs, and the monetary award contained in the default final judgment is vacated.

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17-208. EDWARD BORG, ROBERT BECHT, GEORGE TERRANOVA & CARL TERRANOVA, CO-TRUSTEES, UNDER WILL OF VINCENT TERRANOVA, DECEASED, pet-land-res, v. THOMAS L. FEELEY, res-tent-app, -AND- DAVID STEWART, res-und — Order (Erika M. Edwards, J.), dated November 18, 2016, reversed, with $10 costs, and the monetary award contained in the default final judgment is vacated.

In order to obtain a monetary recovery against a tenant who does not appear in a summary proceeding, a landlord must establish that the petition and notice of petition were served personally or that the process server used due diligence before resorting to conspicuous service (see Oppenheim v. Spike, 107 Misc 2d 55 [1980]; see also Avgush v. Berrahu, 17 Misc 3d 85 [2007] [service must be effectuated in a manner that would be sufficient to support entry of a money judgment in a plenary action]). Here, the affidavit of the process server indicates that, prior to resorting to conspicuous service, two attempts were made to personally serve tenant at the premises, one on a Friday at 6:45 A.M. and one on the following Monday at 1:40 P.M. Significantly, the affidavit of service does not describe any efforts to ascertain tenant’s whereabouts, work schedule or business address (see Serraro v. Staropoli, 94 AD3d 1083 [2012]).

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