Mena v. Four Wheels Co.

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Lowe, III, J.), entered October 13, 1999, which denied defendants’ motion for a change of venue from New York County to Suffolk County, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The motion was properly denied in the absence of a plausible explanation for not having made it until a year after the action was commenced, and also after the note of issue had been filed (see, CPLR 511 [a]). Defendants’ showing of the inconvenience to two witnesses, residents of eastern Nassau and western Suffolk Counties, in having to travel to downtown New York instead of…