Wells Fargo Bank N.A. v. Javier

Judgment of foreclosure and sale, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Ben R. Barbato, J.), entered on or about March 13, 2017, unanimously affirmed, without costs. Appeal from order, same court (Norma Ruiz, J.), entered March 31, 2016, which, upon renewal, denied defendant Ricardo Javier’s motion to extend the time to answer, unanimously dismissed, without costs, as subsumed in the appeal from the judgment.

Defendant failed to show both a reasonable excuse for his default and a potentially meritorious defense to this foreclosure action (see US Bank N.A. v Brown, 147 AD3d 428, 429 [1st Dept 2017]).…