You spent 14 months negotiating to buy a SoHo loft building for $7.2 million. The seller signed. You wired the deposit. Then, a week before closing, the seller sends a one-line email: "We're terminating. Keep the deposit." Money damages won't get you that building, and there isn't another one like it on the block. This is where specific performance in New York commercial contracts becomes the remedy that actually matters. Specific performance is the equitable order that force