Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.
Where a matter is tried without a jury, the authority of this Court on appeal "is as broad as that of the trial court . . . and. . . as to a bench trial [we] may render the judgment [we] find[ ] warranted by the facts, taking into account in a close case `the fact that the trial judge had the advantage of seeing the witnesses'" (Northern Westchester Professional Park Assoc. v Town of Bedford,
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