
    [38 NE3d 798, 17 NYS3d 56]
    Branic International Realty Corp., Appellant, v Phillip Pitt, Respondent, et al., Respondents.
    Decided September 1, 2015
    
      APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Rosenberg Calica & Birney LLP, Garden City {Ronald J. Rosenberg, Lesley Reardon and Judah Serfaty of counsel), for appellant.
    
      Jeanette Zelhof, MFY Legal Services Inc., New York City {Martha A. Weithman of counsel), for respondent.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.11 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals (22 NYCRR 500.11), order affirmed, with costs, and certified question answered in the affirmative (see Branic Intl. Realty Corp. v Pitt, 24 NY3d 1005, 1007 [2014], citing Matter of Park E. Corp. v Whalen, 43 NY2d 735, 736 [1977]).

Concur: Chief Judge Lippman and Judges Pigott, Rivera, Stein and Fahey; Judge Abdus-Salaam taking no part.  