Islam v. City of New York

Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Joan B. Lobis, J.), entered July 5, 2012, which denied petitioner’s motion to renew his motion for leave to file a late notice of claim, granted respondent’s cross motion to dismiss *494the proceeding, and dismissed the petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The motion court properly held that it lacked the discretion to deem the late notice of claim timely filed because the statute of limitations for petitioner’s negligence claim had already expired (General Municipal Law § 50-e [5]; Pierson v City of New York, 56 NY2d 950,…