Simmons v. Hammons

—In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, to compel the Commissioner of Social Services of the City of New York to provide the petitioner with sufficient emergency assistance to pay his outstanding rent, the Commissioner of Social Services of the City of New York appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Barasch, J.), dated May 11, 1995, which granted the petition and ordered her agency to pay emergency rental assistance of $8,552 on behalf of the petitioner to the respondent landlord.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the…