Young Ju Park-Cunningham v. City of Watertown

— Judgment unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: In this CPLR article 78 proceeding, which challenges her dismissal as a probationary employee, petitioner failed to meet her burden of demonstrating that respondents acted in bad *1028faith (see, Tomlinson v Ward, 110 AD2d 537, 538, affd 66 NY2d 771). It is axiomatic that a probationary employee may be discharged without a hearing and without a statement of the reasons for doing so provided the dismissal was not for a constitutionally impermissible purpose or in violation of statutory or decisional law (Matter of York v McGuire, 63 NY2d…