Canty v. City of New York

In a proceeding for leave to serve a late notice of claim pursuant to General Municipal Law § 50-e (5), the petitioner appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Bruno, J.), dated June 16, 1999, which denied the petition.

Ordered that the order is reversed, as a matter of discretion, with costs, and the petition is granted.

A court, after considering all of the relevant facts and circumstances presented to it, has the discretion to extend the time to serve a notice of claim (see, General Municipal Law § 50-e [5]; Matter of Battle v City of New York, 261 AD2d 614). *468One of the…