Williams v. New York City Housing Authority

— Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Judith J. Gische, J.), entered September 7, 2007, which granted defendant’s motion pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7) to dismiss the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff was shot while she was talking to a friend on the grounds of the housing complex where she lived. Dismissal of the complaint was appropriate where, under the circumstances presented, defendant had no opportunity to control the conduct of the perpetrators (see Hairston v New York City Hous. Auth., 238 AD2d 474 [1997], lv denied 91 NY2d 802 [1997]). Furthermore, inasmuch…