Royal v. New York City Housing Authority

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Paul Wooten, J.), entered December 20, 2013, which granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The then 19-year old plaintiff allegedly entered defendant’s residential apartment building with a friend pursuant to an invitation from a person she believed to be a tenant in apartment 8E, but who in fact was an illegal squatter. Plaintiff had visited the occupant in the eighth-floor apartment on approximately 10 prior occasions. Evidence submitted on the motion indicated that defendant learned that the registered…