ORTIZ v. NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY

No. 93-CV-4461 (FB).

22 F.Supp.2d 15 (1998)

Hilda ORTIZ, Plaintiff, v. NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY, Defendant. NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY, Third-party plaintiff, v. Lamont HENRIQUES, Third-party defendant.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

October 19, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Frank, New York City, for Plaintiff.

Nina Cangiano, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, LLP, New York City, for the Defendant/Third-party Plaintiff.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

BLOCK, District Judge.

On December 26, 1992, plaintiff Hilda Ortiz ("Ortiz"), a 47-year old grandmother, was raped at gunpoint in the stairwell of her building in Brooklyn's low-income Cypress Hills housing project. Her attacker, Lamont Henriques ("Henriques"), was apprehended and pleaded guilty to the crime. Ortiz brought this lawsuit shortly after her attack, claiming, inter alia, that the failure of her landlord, defendant...

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