Trustees of Columbia University v. City of New York

Determination of respondents, dated October 27, 2011, finding petitioner in violation of Administrative Code of City of NY § 28-301.1, and imposing a penalty of $5,000, unanimously confirmed, the petition denied, and the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of Supreme Court, New York County [Alexander W Hunter Jr., J.], entered May 15, 2012), dismissed, without costs.

The subject petition does not contest that a worker was killed in petitioner’s building when he fell from a scaffold into an elevator shaft, which was secured only by plastic…