| Sade San A Jong v Lesesne |
| 2014 NY Slip Op 01406 [114 AD3d 624] |
| February 27, 2014 |
| Appellate Division, First Department |
| Sade San A Jong, Respondent, v Carroll B.Lesesne, M.D., et al, Appellants. |
—[*1] Evans and Al-Shabazz, LLP, New York (Robert Anthony Evans, Jr. of counsel), forrespondent.
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Stanley Green, J.), entered April 23, 2013,which denied defendants' motion to change venue from Bronx County to New YorkCounty, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The motion court providently exercised its discretion in denying defendants' motionto change venue as untimely. The record shows that defendants had the facts necessary toseek a change of venue several years in advance of the time their motion was made andthat they did not provide a reasonable explanation for their delay in seeking the venuechange (see e.g. Romero v St.Anthony Community Hosp., 96 AD3d 532 [1st Dept 2012]; Mena v FourWheels Co., 272 AD2d 223 [1st Dept 2000]). Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P.,Acosta, Renwick, Freedman and Manzanet-Daniels, JJ.