Opinion
April 9, 1991
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Kenneth Shorter, J.).
A review of the evidence herein demonstrates that respondent's determination denying the claim of petitioner Rita Ebenhart that she is disabled was not arbitrary and capricious, but was rationally based (Matter of Fanelli v. New York City Conciliation Appeals Bd., 90 A.D.2d 756, affd 58 N.Y.2d 952). In that regard, the validity of her arguments was undermined by her inability to produce pertinent documentation, as well as by her failure to change the nature of her purported disability from physical to psychological so as to conform it to the available proof. Moreover, the record reflects that the Law Department considered the additional evidence presented by petitioner after remand notwithstanding that it was submitted in connection with what was in essence a different disability than the one originally asserted.
Concur — Milonas, J.P., Asch, Kassal and Rubin, JJ.