MEMORANDUM.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.
The damages sought by plaintiffs, for purely economic loss, are too speculative as a matter of law to sustain plaintiffs' causes of action and the complaint, therefore, was properly dismissed (see, Tobin v Grossman, 24 N.Y.2d 609, 615-616 [citing Battalla v State of New York, 10 N.Y.2d 237, 242]; cf. Friedland v Myers, 139 N.Y. 432, 435 [damages may be recovered provided that they are proximate in effect, neither speculative nor uncertain in character and were reasonably foreseen as a consequence of the wrong]). Accordingly, we need not decide whether the decision of defendant's building inspector involved discretionary or ministerial conduct (see, Rottkamp v Young, 21 A.D.2d 373, affd on opn below 15 N.Y.2d 831).
Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges MEYER, SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER and TITONE concur; Judge HANCOCK, JR., taking no part.
Order affirmed, with costs, in a memorandum.