

Chmielowiec v Blackwood (2016 NY Slip Op 07137)





Chmielowiec v Blackwood


2016 NY Slip Op 07137


Decided on November 1, 2016


Appellate Division, First Department


Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.


This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.



Decided on November 1, 2016

Mazzarelli, J.P., Saxe, Moskowitz, Kahn, Gesmer, JJ.


2105 302267/08

[*1]Matthew Chmielowiec, Plaintiff-Respondent,
vDamien Blackwood, et al., Defendants, The Noga Company, LLC, et al., Defendants-Appellants.


Steven F. Goldstein, LLP, Carle Place (Steven F. Goldstein of counsel), for appellants.
Gallagher, Walker, Bianco & Plastaras, Mineola (Brian R. Kenney of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Wilma Guzman, J.), entered October 9, 2015, which denied defendants-appellants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against them on the ground that it was untimely, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Appellants' assertion that they were unaware that the case had been assigned to Justice Guzman's part before they moved for summary judgment is unsupported by the record and therefore cannot be considered (see Chimarios v Duhl, 152 AD2d 508 [1st Dept 1989]). The assertion is also belied by their notice of motion, which is in the record, and which identifies the IAS Part and judge to which the motion should be referred. Since appellants provided no explanation for filing their motion for summary judgment outside the time period set by the rules of the assigned IAS judge, the motion court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying the motion as untimely (see Fine v One Bryant Park, LLC, 84 AD3d 436 [1st Dept 2011]; see also CPLR 3212[a]; Brill v City of New York, 2 NY3d 648, 652 [2004]).
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER
OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.
ENTERED: NOVEMBER 1, 2016
CLERK


