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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

David Kush, an Infant, by Sally Marszalek, His Mother and Natural Guardian, et al., Respondents, v City of Buffalo et al., Appellants.
   Judgment unanimously modified and, as modified, affirmed, with costs to plaintiffs, in accordance with the following memorandum: Plaintiff concedes on appeal that the judgment against the City of Buffalo should be vacated. The Board of Education of the City of Buffalo is not a department of the city government; it is an independent corporate body (People ex rel. Wells & Newton Co. ofN. Y. v Craig, 232 NY 125; H & J Floor Covering v Board ofEduc., 66 AD2d 588, 593-594). The interest on the judgment must be recomputed at a rate of 3% in compliance with the statute (see General Municipal Law, § 3-a). (Appeal from judgment of Supreme Court, Erie County, McGowan, J. — negligence.) Present — Dillon, P. J., Hancock, Jr., Callahan, Doerr and Schnepp, JJ.