Opinion
June 10, 1999.
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Bertram Katz, J.).
The change of venue from the Bronx, where defendant resides, to Westchester, where plaintiff resides, was properly denied absent a showing as to how the two witnesses identified by defendant who are not its employees, namely, the owner and a managerial employee of the Westchester County company plaintiff works for, would be inconvenienced by having to travel to Bronx County from their Westchester County residences; indeed, there was no showing that these witnesses were contacted and are willing to testify ( see, Cardona v. Aggressive Heating, 180 A.D.2d 572; Chimarios v. Duhl, 152 A.D.2d 508).
Concur — Sullivan, J.P., Williams, Wallach, Lerner and Friedman, JJ.