Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
Upon a motion by a party, a trial court may transfer venue where "the convenience of material witnesses and the ends of justice will be promoted by the change" (CPLR 510[3]). Motions to transfer venue under CPLR 510(3) are addressed to the sound discretion of the court, and absent an improvident exercise of discretion, the order will not be disturbed on appeal (see Morris v Halik,
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