N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 21 § 800.17
The commission will not be responsible for damage to or loss of any freight being loaded or unloaded, at the public wharfs and will not be responsible for any delay to same, nor for damage to freight on its wharfs, in its sheds, warehouses, or in or on any Port facility by fire, leakage, or discharge of water from sprinkler fire protection system, collapse of building, rats, mice, moths, weevils, frost or the elements and acts of God nor will it be answerable for any delay, loss or damage arising from insufficient notification or from war, insurrection, shortage of labor, combinations, or riots or strikes of any persons in their own employ or in the service of others, nor from any consequences arising therefrom. Steamship companies arranging to use open wharfs shall be required to furnish watchmen at all times when they have freight on said open wharves.
N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 21 § 800.17