Opinion
July 27, 1998
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Hutcherson, J.).
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
After the parties failed to appear at a status conference, the Supreme Court marked the case off its calendar. Thereafter, the plaintiff waited approximately eight years to make the instant motion to restore. Since the plaintiff failed to demonstrate either a meritorious cause of action or a reasonable excuse for his delay, we find that the Supreme Court did not err in denying the plaintiffs motion (see, CPLR 5015 [a] [1]; Lake Claire Homeowners Assn. v. Rosenberg, 245 A.D.2d 427; Arthur v. City of Yonkers, 237 A.D.2d 474).
O'Brien, J. P., Ritter, Thompson, Friedmann and Goldstein, JJ., concur.