Lewis v City of New York
2011 NY Slip Op 01527 [82 AD3d 410]
March 1, 2011
Appellate Division, First Department
As corrected through Wednesday, May 11, 2011


Stella Lewis et al., Appellants,
v
City of New York,Respondent, et al., Defendants.

[*1]Kelner & Kelner, New York (Gail S. Kelner of counsel), for appellants.

Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York (Mordecai Newman of counsel), forrespondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael D. Stallman, J.), entered March 26,2010, dismissing the complaint and all cross claims as against defendant City of New York (theCity) pursuant to an order, same court and Justice, entered March 24, 2010, which granted theCity's motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs. Appeal from theabove order, unanimously dismissed, without costs, as subsumed in the appeal from thejudgment.

On February 7, 2006, the injured plaintiff was struck by a bus as she crossed the intersectionof 34th Street and Broadway. She alleged that a proximate cause of the accident was thenegligent acts of a traffic officer employed by the City of New York in directing traffic at theintersection.

Supreme Court correctly held that the officer's action involved discretionary conduct, and,thus, the City was immune from liability (see Devivo v Adeyemo, 70 AD3d 587 [2010]; [*2]Shandsv Escalona, 44 AD3d 524 [2007], lv denied 10 NY3d [2008]).

In light of the foregoing, we need not reach plaintiffs' remaining contentions.Concur—Gonzalez, P.J., Tom, Andrias, Renwick and Abdus-Salaam, JJ.


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