Marte v City of New York
2012 NY Slip Op 01510 [92 AD3d 618]
February 28, 2012
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 28, 2012


Narcita G. Marte, Appellant,
v
City of New York, Defendant, and New York City Transit Authority et al., Respondents.

[*1] Law Offices of Elizabeth Eilender, New York (Norman Frowley of counsel), for appellant.

Wallace D. Gossett, Brooklyn (Lawrence Heisler of counsel), for respondents.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael D. Stallman, J.), entered September 21, 2011, which denied plaintiff's motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

An issue of fact exists as to whether plaintiff had the right-of-way when she was hit by a bus (see Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1111 [a] [1]; § 1112 [a]; see also Calcano v Rodriguez, 91 AD3d 468, 468-469 [2012]). Although a nonparty witness asserted in an affidavit that plaintiff "had the green/walk signal and was walking within the crosswalk" when she was hit by the bus, defendant bus driver testified that she was about a car length south of the crosswalk when she was hit. At this procedural posture, the truth of the bus driver's testimony is presumed "where the court's duty is to find issues rather than determine them" (see Arias v Skyline Windows, Inc., 89 AD3d 460 [2011], citing Powell v HIS Contrs., Inc., 75 AD3d 463, 465 [2010]).

We have considered plaintiff's remaining contentions and find them unavailing. Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Andrias, Catterson, Abdus-Salaam and Manzanet-Daniels, JJ. [Prior Case History: 2011 NY Slip Op 32494(U).]