A Brooklyn woman is accusing NYCHA of negligence after she was brutally attacked at Farragut Houses last year.
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A Brooklyn woman is suing the New York City Housing Authority for negligence after she was brutally attacked at Farragut Houses in Downtown Brooklyn last year.
According to a suit filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court last week, 26-year-old Sophia Rostom was visiting a friend at the Bridge Street complex on March 28, 2023, when a “known intruder” entered through an unlocked door and stabbed her 14 times as she waited for the elevator.
Rostom’s lawyers — John Morgan and Moses Ahn — said the medical technician and mother lost nearly half of the blood in her body and spent more than a week in the intensive care unit at NewYork-Presbyterian hospital after undergoing emergency surgery on her heart and lungs.
Nearly a year after the attack, Rostom “suffers from severe physical and psychological trauma” from the incident, her lawyers said, and they believe NYCHA bears some blame for the attack for failing to secure the door through which the alleged assailant, Maurice Brister, entered the building.
“All landlords – from the owner of a single home residence to the nation’s largest public housing authority – have a responsibility to ensure residents and guests will be safe,” Morgan and Ahn said in a statement. “What our client suffered is a terrifying example of what can happen when landlords allegedly fail in that duty. Ms. Rostom’s injuries forever altered her young life and derailed her career. Nearly a year after this tragic incident, she remains unable to return to work and has yet to fully recover.”
According to the lawsuit, Brister entered Farragut Houses through an “unlocked, unsecured, broken, and/or inoperable door.” Brister allegedly stabbed at least one other woman the day Rostom was attacked.
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