Opinion
6953 Index 301282/16
06-21-2018
Justina CARRERO, Plaintiff–Appellant, v. The NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY, Defendant–Respondent.
Becker & D'Agostino, P.C., New York (Robert D. Becker of counsel), for appellant. Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, LLP, New York (Patrick J. Lawless ) of counsel), for respondent.
Becker & D'Agostino, P.C., New York (Robert D. Becker of counsel), for appellant.
Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, LLP, New York (Patrick J. Lawless ) of counsel), for respondent.
Richter, J.P., Tom, Mazzarelli, Gesmer, Moulton, JJ.
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Larry S. Schachner, J.), entered on or about May 9, 2017, which granted defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint and to strike plaintiff's errata sheet purporting to correct the transcript of her General Municipal Law § 50–h hearing testimony, and denied plaintiff's cross motion to amend the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Supreme Court correctly struck plaintiff's errata sheet purporting to correct the transcript of her General Municipal Law § 50–h hearing testimony, because plaintiff made numerous substantive changes to the testimony without providing a sufficient explanation for them ( CPLR 3116[a] ; see e.g. Cataudella v. 17 John St. Assoc., LLC, 140 A.D.3d 508, 35 N.Y.S.3d 304 [1st Dept. 2016] ; Torres v. Board of Educ. of City of N.Y., 137 A.D.3d 1256, 29 N.Y.S.3d 396 [2d Dept. 2016] ).
The court properly granted defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint because defendant did not have sufficient notice of the cause of the incident before plaintiff commenced this action. Neither plaintiff's inconsistent statements and testimony after service of the notice of claim, nor the ambiguous photographs produced, offered any assistance in identifying the cause of the accident (see Reyes v. City of New York, 281 A.D.2d 235, 722 N.Y.S.2d 17 [1st Dept. 2001] ; Rodriguez v. City of New York, 38 A.D.3d 268, 832 N.Y.S.2d 13 [1st Dept. 2007] ).
The court providently exercised its discretion in denying plaintiff leave to amend the complaint since defendant would be prejudiced.