TROCOM CONSTRUCTION CORP v. CITY OF NEW YORK (2025)

Orders, Supreme Court, New York County (Lucy Billings, J.), entered October 5, 2023, which granted defendants’ motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against them, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In opposition to defendants’ prima facie showing that plaintiff failed to strictly comply with the subject contract's notice-of-claim requirements (see generally A.H.A. Gen. Constr. v New York City Hous. Auth., 92 N.Y.2d 20, 33–34 [1998]), plaintiff failed to raise an issue of fact as to whether it was hindered or prevented from doing so by defendants’ bad faith, negligence, or misconduct (see id. at 31;  Five Star Contr.  Cos., Inc. v. Fashion Inst. of Tech., 194 AD3d 405, 405–406 [1st Dept 2021]).  Even if, as plaintiff claims, defendant City of New York was unreasonable and unduly burdensome with its demands and expectations of plaintiff, the record offers no support for plaintiff's claim that this obstructed it from submitting a statement as to the details and amounts of its damages within 45 days of initially incurring them and then updating that statement every 30 days thereafter, as required by the contract.

As third-party beneficiaries expressly identified as such in the contract, defendants Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. and Empire City Subway were also entitled to enforce the contract's notice-of-claim requirements (see generally Burns Jackson Miller Summit & Spitzer v Lindner, 59 N.Y.2d 314, 336 [1983]).

We have considered plaintiff's remaining arguments and find them unavailing.