Porter v. City of New York

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Margaret A. Chan, J.), entered November 19, 2013, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, and denied plaintiffs cross motion for partial summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendants established their entitlement to judgment as a matter of law by demonstrating that they engaged in a good faith interactive process through which they provided plaintiff with a reasonable accommodation to address her vision and reading disabilities (see Executive Law § 296; Administrative Code of City of NY § 8-107). Defendants were not required to provide plaintiff with the specific accommodation she preferred (Pimentel v Citibank, N.A., 29 AD3d 141 , 148 [1st Dept 2006], lv denied 7 NY3d 707 [2006]). In any event, they established that plaintiffs preferred additional accommodation would not have addressed the non-visual disabilities that were impacting her job performance and preventing her from satisfying the essential requisites of her job (see Jacobsen v New York City Health & Hosps. Corp., 22 NY3d 824 , 834, 838 [2014]).

In opposition, plaintiff failed to raise a triable issue of fact. Accordingly, defendant’s motion was properly granted.

We have considered plaintiffs remaining arguments and find them unavailing. Concur — Friedman, J.P., Acosta, Richter and Gische, JJ.