Legal Opinion
Rivera v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 13, 2011PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
On March 19, 2008, the plaintiff, a frequent guest of a friend living in an apartment building in the Van Dyke housing project in Brooklyn, was accosted by a man in the elevator of a building therein and then raped on the stairway landing leading to the roof. The plaintiff commenced this action against the New York City Housing Authority (hereinafter the NYCHA) and the City of New York alleging that, as the owner or operator of the building, each was negligent in failing to adequately secure the building. The plaintiff alleged numerous specific acts of negligence, including, among other…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Miller v. State of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1984
- Steering Committee v. Port Authority of New York & New JerseyNew York Court of Appeals · 2011
- Price v. New York City Housing AuthorityNew York Court of Appeals · 1998
- Kimyagarov v. Nixon Taxi Corp.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2007
- Brennan v. GaglianoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2010
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