Marano v. New York City Housing Authority

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Kenneth L. Thompson, Jr., J.), entered January 27, 2006, which denied petitioner’s application to file a late notice of claim, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Fetitioner failed to establish that respondent had timely notice of the essential facts of his claim; neither the newspaper article nor the fire marshal’s report mentioned that he had suffered injuries while trying to climb a fence (see e.g. Matter of Morris v County of Suffolk, 88 AD2d 956 [1982], affd 58 NY2d 767 [1982]). While respondent received another individual’s notice of claim within 90…