Mid City Elec. Corp. v. Metro. Transp. Auth.

• Decision Date: 15 March 2017
• Parties: In re MID CITY ELECTRICAL CORP., Petitioner–Appellant, v. METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY et al., Respondents–Respondents.
• Court: New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

148 A.D.3d 497

48 N.Y.S.3d 580 (Mem)

In re MID CITY ELECTRICAL CORP., Petitioner–Appellant,

v.METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY et al., Respondents–Respondents.

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.

March 15, 2017.

Peckar & Abramson, P.C., New York (Charles E. Williams, III of counsel), for appellant.

Helene Fromm, New York (Mary Fisher Bernet of counsel), for Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Thomas F. Prendergast, respondents.

Sajaa Ahmed, New York, for Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Patrick J. Foye, respondents.

Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York (David Lawrence III of counsel), for New York State Department of Transportation and Matthew J. Driscoll, respondents.

David J. State, Buffalo, for Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority and Kimberley A. Minkel, respondents.

Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Manuel J. Mendez, J.), entered June 24, 2016, denying the petition to annul a determination of the New York State Unified Certification Program, dated February 12, 2016, which removed petitioner's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise certification, and dismissing the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Contrary to its contention, petitioner was afforded due process (see Matter of Beck–Nichols v. Bianco, 20 N.Y.3d 540, 559, 964 N.Y.S.2d 456, 987 N.E.2d 233 [2013] ; see also Matter of Daxor Corp. v. State of N.Y. Dept. of Health, 90 N.Y.2d 89, 98, 659 N.Y.S.2d 189, 681 N.E.2d 356 [1997], cert. denied 523 U.S. 1074, 118 S.Ct. 1516, 140 L.Ed.2d 669 [1998] ). Thus, it cannot avoid the consequences of its failure to exhaust its administrative remedies (see Watergate II Apts. v. Buffalo Sewer Auth., 46 N.Y.2d 52, 57, 412 N.Y.S.2d 821, 385 N.E.2d 560 [1978] ; see 49 CFR 26.87 [g]; 26.89).

SWEENY, J.P., RENWICK, MAZZARELLI, MANZANET–DANIELS, JJ., concur.