Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
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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