Opinion
March 11, 1996
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Adams, J.).
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The petitioner was allegedly injured when she slipped and fell on ice while walking in a parking lot in the Muttontown Preserve. She concededly failed to serve a timely notice of claim upon the County of Nassau (see, General Municipal Law § 50-e). Accordingly, she commenced this proceeding for leave to serve a late notice of claim. However, in view of, inter alia, the inadequate excuse proffered by the petitioner for her delay in filing a notice of claim and the amount of time that elapsed between the expiration of the 90-day limit of General Municipal Law § 50-e and the point at which the County of Nassau received actual notice of the essential facts of the petitioner's claim, the Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying leave to serve a late notice of claim (see, General Municipal Law § 50-e; Matter of Strauss v New York City Tr. Auth., 195 A.D.2d 322; Matter of Townsend v New York City Hous. Auth., 194 A.D.2d 795; Carbone v Town of Brookhaven, 176 A.D.2d 778; Matter of Perry v City of New York, 133 A.D.2d 692). Rosenblatt, J.P., Ritter, Copertino and Goldstein, JJ., concur.