Baez v. City of New York

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Betty Owen Stinson, J.), entered on or about June 10, 2002, which granted defendants’ motion for a directed verdict at the end of plaintiffs case and dismissed the action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In this case involving the belated arrival of an ambulance, plaintiff failed to meet her burden of establishing the existence *680of a special relationship running from the municipality to plaintiff or her decedent (see Cuffy v City of New York, 69 NY2d 255, 260 [1987]). Therefore, plaintiff did not establish the narrow exception to the general rule that…