Despite repeated calls to police from neighbors that two unleashed pitbulls were roaming a Staten Island neighborhood, New York City cannot be held liable for the fatal mauling the dogs inflicted on a 90-year-old man, a state judge has determined.
Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Thomas Aliotta (See Profile) found that as “disastrous” as the consequences were for the late Henry Piotrowski, his survivors cannot show that the city had a “special duty” to protect him from the dogs.
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