Best v. Peninsula New York Hotel Management Inc.

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Tompkins, J.), entered September 26, 2002, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff fails to adduce evidence sufficient to raise a triable issue as to whether defendant’s proffered reason for not promoting him, namely his lack of an open consultative management style, was pretextual. There is no showing that such criterion for promotion was contrived to keep plaintiff from getting the job, or that defendant’s assessment of plaintiff’s management style was false.…