Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
Where a defendant fails to meet its initial burden of establishing a prima facie case, it becomes unnecessary to consider whether the plaintiffs' papers in opposition to the defendant's motion were sufficient to raise a triable issue of fact (see Winegrad v New York Univ. Med. Ctr.,
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