| Knox v New York City Dept. of Educ. |
| 2012 NY Slip Op 07610 [100 AD3d 486] |
| November 13, 2012 |
| Appellate Division, First Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| Tulsa Knox, Appellant, v New York City Department of Education, Respondent. |
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Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York (Norman Corenthal of counsel), for
respondent.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Alice Schlesinger, J.), entered December 7, 2011, which denied petitioner's motion for an award of attorney's fees pursuant to CPLR article 86, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The motion was properly denied since respondent is neither the State nor a state agency within the meaning of the statute (see CPLR 8602 [g]; Hernandez v Hammons, 98 NY2d 735 [2002]). The fact that respondent performs a governmental function, namely the administration of public education, does not make it an agent of the State (see Matter of Apollon v Giuliani, 246 AD2d 130, 134-135 [1st Dept 1998], lv dismissed 92 NY2d 1046 [1999]). Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Moskowitz, Richter, Abdus-Salaam and Feinman, JJ.