
    Kew Forest Neighborhood Association, Inc., et al., Respondents, v Rita Lieberman et al., Appellants.
    [725 NYS2d 897]
   —In an action, inter alia, to permanently enjoin the construction of an apartment building as being in violation of a restrictive covenant, the defendants appeal from stated portions of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Schmidt, J.), dated September 19, 2000, which, inter alia, denied their cross motion to dismiss the complaint for lack of standing and granted the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

Contrary to the defendants’ contention, the Supreme Court properly granted the plaintiffs’ application for a preliminary injunction. The plaintiffs established a likelihood of success on the merits, irreparable harm absent the granting of the injunction, and that the balance of the equities is in their favor (see, Aetna Ins. Co. v Capasso, 75 NY2d 860; Grant Co. v Srogi, 52 NY2d 496).

The defendants’ remaining contentions are without merit. Santucci, J. P., Goldstein, Luciano and Adams, JJ., concur.  