Grandinetti v. Metropolitan Transportation Authority

— In a condemnation proceeding pursuant to EDPL 402, the defendant condemnor appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Cromarty, J.), dated December 11, 1986, which, upon reargument, granted the claimant condemnee’s motion for leave to file a late notice of claim.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion, without costs or disbursement, and the motion is denied.

By letter dated April 19, 1985, the claimant was offered the sum of $23,250 by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (hereinafter the MTA) for the acquisition of a…