ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in granting the plaintiffs' motion for leave to enter a judgment upon the appellant's default, and denying the appellant's cross motion to compel them to accept its late answer, given its failure to demonstrate a reasonable excuse for its default in answering (see Hazen v. Bottiglieri, 286 A.D.2d 708; Miles v. Blue Label Trucking, 232 A.D.2d 382; Martyn v. Jones, 166 A.D.2d 508; Peters v. Pickard, 143 A.D.2d 81).
SANTUCCI, J.P., FRIEDMANN, H. MILLER and SCHMIDT, JJ., concur.