Aymes v NYC Dept. of Hous., Preserv. & Dev.

Aymes v NYC Dept. of Hous. Preserv. & Dev. 2007 NY Slip Op 01404 [37 AD3d 306] February 20, 2007 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Clifford Aymes, Appellant,
v
NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development, et al., Respondents.

—[*1] Clifford Aymes, appellant pro se.

Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York (Elizabeth S. Natrella of counsel), for respondents.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Karen S. Smith, J.), entered October 21, 2005, which, to the extent appealed from, granted defendants' cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

This action was properly dismissed as untimely. Plaintiff's challenges to the liens on property he purchased were premised fundamentally on the manner in which the liens were imposed, thus constituting challenges to administrative determinations; accordingly, they should have been brought under CPLR article 78 (Todras v City of New York, 11 AD3d 383 [2004]). Inasmuch as plaintiff had notice of the liens when he purchased the property in August 2003, the action he commenced in 2005 was well beyond the applicable four-month statute of limitations for article 78 proceedings (see Hill v Giuliani, 272 AD2d 157 [2000]).

We have considered plaintiff's remaining contentions and find them unavailing. Concur—Tom, J.P., Saxe, Sweeny, Malone and Kavanagh, JJ.