Roberts v. New York City Housing Authority

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Gammerman, J., and a jury), entered December 23, 1997, in favor of the infant plaintiff and against defendant Housing Authority in the principal amount of $513,297.11, plus interest, costs and disbursements, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The infant plaintiff suffered burns as a result of the emission of steam, with a temperature of 200 degrees Fahrenheit, from a five-inch diameter fire hose that defendant, in order to discharge excess steam condensate from the hot water system of one of its buildings in the development where plaintiff lived,…