Maheshwari v. City of New York

In Maheshwari v. City of New York, 2 NY3d 288, 294, 810 N.E.2d 894, 778 N.Y.S.2d 442 [2004], the Court of Appeals upheld the summary dismissal of an action for injuries sustained by the plaintiff as a result of a criminal assault at a rap and heavy metal concert held at a City park, affirming the findings below that the assault was not foreseeable, that the defendants took reasonable measures to deal with issues of "crowd control and other forms of disorderliness short of unprovoked criminal acts," and that the random criminal attack was not a "predictable result of the gathering of a large group of people." (Id. at 294).