Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The Supreme Court properly rejected the plaintiffs equitable estoppel claim. Estoppel against a municipal defendant will lie only when the municipal defendant's conduct was calculated to, or negligently did, mislead or discourage a party from serving a timely notice of claim and when that conduct was justifiably relied upon by that party ( see Bender v New York City Health Hosps. Corp., 38 NY2d 662, 668; Wade v New York City Health Hosps. Corp., 16 AD3d 677). The plaintiff failed to demonstrate that the defendants engaged in any misleading conduct that would support a finding of estoppel.
Accordingly, the Supreme Court properly granted that branch of the defendants' cross motion which was to dismiss the complaint, and properly denied, as academic, the plaintiffs motion, in effect, pursuant to CPLR 3126 to strike the defendants' answer or, in the alternative, to compel certain discovery ( cf. Commack Roller Rink v Commack Arena Mktg., 154 AD2d 327, 329). [Prior Case History: 23 Misc 3d 1129(A), 2009 NY Slip Op 51004(U).]