Tidd v. New York City Transit Authority

—In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Hutcherson, J.), dated April 29, 1994, which granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment and denied the plaintiff’s cross motion to compel the defendant to comply with certain discovery demands.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The Court of Appeals has explicitly stated that "[t]he New York City Transit Authority owes no duty to protect a person on its premises from assault by a third person, absent facts estabishing a special relationship…