DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.
CPLR 602(b) authorizes the Supreme Court to remove an action or proceeding pending in another court for consolidation with the Supreme Court action. However, the Civil Court is the preferred forum for landlord-tenant disputes, and a summary proceeding should be removed only where the Civil Court is unable to afford the parties complete relief (see Post v. 120 East End Ave. Corp., 62 N.Y.2d 19, 28; Scheff v. 230 E. 73rd Owners Corp., 203 A.D.2d 151; Amoo v. Eastlake Realty Co., 133 A.D.2d 657; Lun Far Co. v. Aylesbury Assoc., 40 A.D.2d 794). Here, both the Supreme Court action and the summary proceeding essentially arise from a dispute over whether the plaintiffs violated their proprietary lease by failing to obtain approval to sublease their apartment in June 2000. Since the plaintiffs may obtain full redress of their rights under the proprietary lease by raising the claims asserted in this action as affirmative defenses and counterclaims in the summary proceeding, the Supreme Court properly denied their motion for removal and consolidation, and granted that branch of the cross motion which was to dismiss the action pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(4) (see Post v. 120 East End Ave. Assocs., supra; Cohen v. Goldfein, 100 A.D.2d 795, 796-797).
SANTUCCI, J.P., KRAUSMAN, ADAMS and CRANE, JJ., concur.