MATTER OF TORRES v. NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY


40 A.D.3d 328 (2007)

835 N.Y.S.2d 184

In the Matter of LILLIBEA TORRES, Respondent, v. NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY et al., Appellants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided May 10, 2007.


Lillibea Torres (petitioner) is the sister of Hannah Lane, who lived in the Lincoln Houses on Madison Avenue, an NYCHA-owned housing development operated for the purpose of providing low-income families with affordable housing. In 2002, Lane was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer, a disease that required her to have 24-hour assistance. Along with her husband and 11-year-old daughter, petitioner moved into Lane's apartment to assist her when the Visiting Nurse Service was...

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