Opinion
2014-03-11
Diane SILVER, Plaintiff–Appellant, v. CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF HOMELESS SERVICES, Defendant–Respondent.
Kreisberg & Maitland, LLP, New York (Jeffery L. Kreisberg of counsel), for appellant. Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York (Ellen Ravitch of counsel), for respondent.
Kreisberg & Maitland, LLP, New York (Jeffery L. Kreisberg of counsel), for appellant. Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York (Ellen Ravitch of counsel), for respondent.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Barbara Jaffe, J.), entered September 24, 2012, which granted defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Defendant established that the denial of plaintiff's request to be reassigned to a certain work location did not constitute a refusal to make a reasonable accommodation for plaintiff's disability ( seeExecutive Law § 296; Administrative Code of City of N.Y. § 8–107). There was no position available at the location plaintiff desired, and in any event, “an employer is not obligated to provide the disabled employee with [an] accommodation that the employee requests or prefers” ( Pimentel v. Citibank, N.A., 29 A.D.3d 141, 148, 811 N.Y.S.2d 381 [1st Dept.2006],lv. denied7 N.Y.3d 707, 821 N.Y.S.2d 813, 854 N.E.2d 1277 [2006] [internal quotation marks omitted] ).
We have considered plaintiff's remaining arguments and find them unavailing. MAZZARELLI, J.P., SWEENY, DeGRASSE, MANZANET–DANIELS, GISCHE, JJ., concur.