Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.
The Supreme Court correctly denied the plaintiff's request for a negligence charge. The gravamen of the plaintiff's claim was that the defendant, by its police officers, assaulted her by slapping handcuffs on her wrists and pushing her into a patrol car upon her arrest. It is well settled that no cause of action to recover damages for negligent assault exists in New York (see, Richman v Nussdorf,
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