Milkis v. Condominium Lloyd 54 Condominium

*57OPINION OF THE COURT

Order, entered February 25, 2008, affirmed, with $10 costs.

The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendants’ belated motion to amend their answer. Although permission to amend should ordinarily be freely granted (CPLR 3025 [b]), the movant must make some evidentiary showing that the proposed amendment has arguable merit (see HeleneHarrisson Corp. v Moneyline Networks, 6 AD3d 151 [2004]). The proposed counterclaims advanced by defendants herein assert that the plaintiff mother failed to adequately “interfere with” — or, perhaps more properly, to take steps…