Katz v. Manhattan & Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Rob*232ert Lippmann, J.), entered on or about September 8, 1995, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff, a passenger on defendant Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority’s bus who was stabbed by another passenger, was owed no special duty of care by defendant to protect her from this sudden and unforeseeable assault, notwithstanding the assailant’s disorderly behavior prior to the assault, and thus cannot hold defendant liable therefor (Weiner v…