March 3, 1997. In an action, inter alia, to recover damages pursuant to Executive Law § 296 based on gender discrimination, the defendant appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Leone, J.), dated June 4, 1996, as denied its motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. Before: Rosenblatt, J.P., Pizzuto, Altman and Luciano, JJ. Ordered that the order is reversed insofar ELS appealed from, on the law, with costs, the defendant's motion is granted, and the complaint