Opinion
2012-12-4
In re Sheena ROWE, Petitioner, v. John B. RHEA, etc., et al., Respondents.
Urban Justice Center, New York (William Bryan of counsel), for appellant. Kelly D. MacNeal, New York (Seth E. Kramer of counsel), for respondents.
Urban Justice Center, New York (William Bryan of counsel), for appellant. Kelly D. MacNeal, New York (Seth E. Kramer of counsel), for respondents.
SAXE, J.P., FRIEDMAN, ACOSTA, RENWICK, FREEDMAN, JJ.
Determination of respondent New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), dated May 19, 2010, which terminated petitioner's public housing tenancy on grounds of nondesirability, unanimously confirmed, the petition denied, and the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of Supreme Court, New York County [Barbara Jaffe, J.], entered November 18, 2011), dismissed, without costs.
Substantial evidence supports the conclusion that petitioner continued to be a member of a drug conspiracy until her arrest in mid-May 2009, which was during her first two weeks as a public housing tenant ( see generally 300 Gramatan Ave. Assoc. v. State Div. of Human Rights, 45 N.Y.2d 176, 180–181, 408 N.Y.S.2d 54, 379 N.E.2d 1183 [1978] ). Althoughthe federal indictment to which she pled guilty defined the drug conspiracy as ending some time in April 2009, the record supported a reasonable inference that petitioner did not withdraw from the conspiracy prior to her arrest.
Petitioner's claim that NYCHA failed to adhere to its pre-termination procedures is unpreserved because it was not raised before the agency ( see Matter of Hughes v. Suffolk County Dept. of Civ. Serv., 74 N.Y.2d 833, 834, 546 N.Y.S.2d 335, 545 N.E.2d 625 [1989] ), and, in any event, is not supported by the record.
The termination of petitioner's tenancy does not shock our sense of fairness ( see e.g. Latoni v. New York City Hous. Auth., 95 A.D.3d 611, 945 N.Y.S.2d 231 [1st Dept.2012] ).