Before: Andrias, J.P., Sweeny, Nardelli, Catterson and DeGrasse, JJ.

Decided: May 13; 350078/05

Lee A. Rubenstein, New York, and Blank Rome, LLP, New York (Leonard G. Florescue of counsel), for appellant.

Law Offices of Denise Mortner Kranz & Associates, New York (Steven K. Meier and Denise Mortner Kranz of counsel), for respondent.