Jacqueline S. v. City of New York

*394Plaintiffs commenced the first action, sounding in negligence, for damages resulting from an assault upon the infant on the roof of the Housing Authority building in which plaintiffs resided. This Court granted the Housing Authority summary judgment dismissing the first action, in part on the basis of an affidavit by the individual defendant, a Housing Authority employee, indicating that there had been a referendum at which the residents of the subject housing project had voted against self-closing, self-locking devices on the building doors. The Court of Appeals ultimately reversed this…