Lugo v. New York City Housing Authority

—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Kenneth Thompson, Jr., J.), entered February 28, 2000, which denied petitioner’s application to serve a late notice of claim, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Petitioner contends that her notice of claim against respondent Housing Authority was not timely served because her attorney only belatedly ascertained that the owner of the premises where petitioner’s accident is alleged to have occurred was not the City of New York but respondent Housing Authority. The failure of petitioner to communicate to her attorney the proper party to sue, however, does…