Opinion
April 4, 1994
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Jackson, J.).
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
In this case, the notice of claim was served only 16 days after expiration of the 90-day time limit for serving a notice of claim, and the appellant can show no prejudice, as it received actual notice of the incident on the day following the petitioner's injury.
There is no merit to the appellant's contention that the petitioners' application must be denied because it was not established that the delay in seeking leave to serve late notice of claim was the product of the infant petitioner's infancy. Rather, it is well settled that "infancy is now but one consideration and `[t]he decision to grant or deny an extension under section 50-e (subd 5) is still purely a discretionary one'" (Matter of Kurz v New York City Health Hosps. Corp., 174 A.D.2d 671, 672; see also, Matter of Kyser v New York City Hous. Auth., 178 A.D.2d 601).
Therefore, the Supreme Court properly exercised its discretion in granting the petitioners' application (see, Matter of Chatman v White Plains Hous. Auth., 101 A.D.2d 838). Mangano, P.J., Miller, Hart and Florio, JJ., concur.