IN RE: Thomas BRIGHAM (2023)

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Erika M. Edwards, J.), entered March 31, 2022, which denied petitioner's motion to renew his CPLR article 78 petition seeking to, inter alia, annul a temporary certificate of occupancy issued by respondent New York City Department of Buildings (DOB), unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court providently exercised its discretion in denying the motion to renew, as the newly discovered facts proffered by petitioner would not have changed the prior determination that the expiration of the temporary certificate of occupancy rendered his request to annul it moot (see CPLR 2221[e][2]).

Petitioner's challenges to the actions taken by respondent New York City Loft Board related to its rejection of his application for a finding of unreasonable interference and respondents’ notice to DOB approving the issuance of the temporary certificate of occupancy are not properly before this Court on this appeal.  Petitioner's failure to prosecute the branch of the proceeding that was previously transferred to this Court (see CPLR 7804[g]) forecloses him from now raising these arguments (see Matter of E.B. Stimpson Co. v Jorling, 161 A.D.2d 593, 594 [2d Dept 1990];  see also Tregerman v. Auerbach, 111 AD3d 503, 504 [1st Dept 2011];  Matter of Neroni v. Granis, 121 AD3d 1312, 1314 [3d Dept 2014], appeal dismissed 25 NY3d 957 [2015]).