In re the Arbitration between Five Boro Roofing & Sheet Metal Works, Inc. & Van-Tulco, Inc.

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alan J. Saks, J.), entered December 5, 1990, pursuant to an order of the same court, dated November 29, 1990, which granted petitioner’s application to confirm an arbitration award, and denied respondent’s cross-motion to *559vacate or modify such award, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

There is no merit to respondent’s contention that the arbitrator’s interpretation of the contract is irrational. An arbitrator’s interpretation of the parties’ contract is not subject to judicial challenge "even where 'the apparent, or even the plain, meaning of the words’ of…