Supreme Court properly denied plaintiff's motion for a default judgment. Plaintiff failed to show that the doorman at defendant's apartment building refused him access to defendant's residence, and as a result, plaintiff's attempt at substituted service by leaving the papers with the doorman at defendant's building was ineffective (cf. Al Fayed v Barak,
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