Frazier v. State

opinion of the court

Bloom, J.

On October 10, 1979, at approximately 1:45 a.m. the claimant was walking on the grounds of a housing project known as Wagner Houses. Wagner Houses is located between Second and Pleasant Avenues and runs from 120th Street to 124th Street, in the Borough of Manhattan. Adjacent to or part of Wagner Houses is a housing project known as the Paladino Project.

As claimant approached the Paladino Project he saw two men, one known to him as Berraro, emerge from a building described in the record as 445 East 120th Street. The two men, who were proceeding in the same…