Brownstone Publishers, Inc. v. New York City Department of Finance , 552 N.Y.S.2d 92 ( 1990 )

Motion for leave to appeal denied. The Court of Appeals restates the rule that denial of a motion for leave to appeal is not equivalent to an affirmance and has no precedential value (see, e.g., Matter of Marchant v Mead-Morrison Mfg. Co., 252 NY 284, 297-298 [Cardozo, Ch. J.]; New York Pub. Interest Research Group v Governor’s Advisory Commn., 71 NY2d 964).