Halperin & Halperin, P.C., New York (Jeffrey Weiskopf of counsel), for appellant.
Armienti DeBellis Guglielmo & Rhoden, LLP, New York (Vanessa M. Corchia of counsel), for respondents.
the complaint against defendant MTA Bus Company and Shentel Melinda Wright, and otherwise affirmed, without costs. Appeal from order, same court (Barry Salman, J.), entered May 9, 2016, which granted in part and denied in part defendants' motion, unanimously dismissed, without costs, as superseded by the appeal from the reargument order.
Under the facts of this case, MTA Bus is equitably estopped from claiming that it is not the proper party defendant (see generally Bender v New York City Health & Hosps. Corp., 38 N.Y.2d 662, 667–668, 382 N.Y.S.2d 18, 345 N.E.2d 561 [1976] [courts may use doctrine of equitable estoppel to notice of claim situations to ensure that statutes like section 50–e of the General Municipal Law do not become a trap]; Konner v. New York City Tr. Auth., 143 A.D.3d 774, 39 N.Y.S.3d 475 [2d Dept.2016] ).
ACOSTA, P.J., RENWICK, RICHTER, WEBBER, JJ., concur.