Legal Opinion

Cruz v. New York City Housing Authority

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided May 25, 1999PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Phyllis Gangel-Jacob, J.), entered March 29, 1998, which granted plaintiffs motion to amend her notice of claim as against both defendants City of *297New York and City Housing Authority, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Amendment of the notice of claim was properly allowed absent a showing of how defendants were prejudiced thereby (General Municipal Law § 50-e [6]). Concerning the cause of plaintiffs fall, although her notice of claim alleged only snow and ice, her testimony at the General Municipal Law § 50-h hearing, held less than two months after…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. D'Alessandro v. New York City Transit AuthorityNew York Court of Appeals · 1994
  2. Lord v. New York City Housing AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Streletskaya v. New York City Transit AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2006
  2. Seraita v. City of YonkersAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2002
  3. Green v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2013
  4. Miller v. New York City Transit AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2004
  5. Green v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2013

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