Opinion
February 27, 1995
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Doyle, J.).
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
We agree that the defendants failed to proffer sufficient evidence demonstrating that no material issues of fact exist warranting summary judgment in their favor (see, Alvarez v Prospect Hosp., 68 N.Y.2d 320; River Park Assocs. v. Meyerbank Elec. Co., 116 A.D.2d 709). "Failure to make such showing requires [a] denial of the motion, regardless of the sufficiency of the opposing papers" (Winegrad v. New York Univ. Med. Ctr., 64 N.Y.2d 851, 853; Sillman v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., 3 N.Y.2d 395; Museums at Stony Brook v. Village of Patchogue Fire Dept., 146 A.D.2d 572). Ritter, J.P., Copertino, Joy and Hart, JJ., concur.