Kuttemperoor v. Mount Sinai Medical Center

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Karla Moskowitz, J.), entered on or about September 25, 1998, which denied *318plaintiffs motion for an extension of time to file a note of issue and, sua sponte, dismissed the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs. Order, same court and Justice, entered December 31, 1998, which, insofar as appealable, denied plaintiffs motion to renew, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The complaint, which alleges medical malpractice, was properly dismissed, upon the court’s own initiative taken upon plaintiffs motion for an extension of time to file made in…