Legal Opinion
Ortiz v. New York City Housing Authority
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided October 19, 1998No. 1:93-cv-04461PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
BLOCK, District Judge.
On December 26, 1992, plaintiff Hilda Ortiz (“Ortiz”), a 47-year old grandmother, was raped at gunpoint in the stairwell of her building in Brooklyn’s low-income Cypress Hills housing project. Her attacker, Lamont Henriques (“Henriques”), was apprehended and pleaded guilty to the crime. Ortiz brought this lawsuit shortly after her attack, claiming, inter alia, that the failure of her landlord, defendant New York City Housing-Authority (“Housing Authority”), to provide adequate security for her building, including the maintenance of a working lock on…
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