New York is generous with immediate appeals "as of right" to the Appellate Division from non-final (interlocutory) orders of the Supreme Court, about the only qualification being that the non-final order "involves some part of the merits" or "affects a substantial right" (see CPLR 5701[a][2][iv-v]). However, a party need not appeal from an interlocutory order, but may instead elect to raise all appealable and preserved issues on an appeal from the final judgment, provided such interlocutory order "necessarily affects the final judgment" (see CPLR 5501[a][1]).