SettleScore

New York City

Suing the City, NYCHA or the MTA

What each public defendant pays, how long it takes, and which law firms listed on SettleScore recover against it most often, from public records.

Updated October 8, 2026

Key findings

  1. The Police Department (NYPD) was the City agency with the most injury payments: 35,647, typically $20,000 each.
  2. Cases against the Department of Correction resolved fastest (typically 11 months); cases against MTA / NYC Transit took longest (4.3 years).
  3. MTA / NYC Transit: 1,018 payments in our records, typically $50,000.
  4. NYCHA: 880 payments in our records, typically $55,000.
  5. State of New York: 107 payments in our records, typically $65,000.

The data

What each public defendant pays

DefendantPaymentsTypical paymentTypical time to resolve
City of New York91,160$25,0002.1 years
City of New York: Police Department (NYPD)35,647$20,00019 months
City of New York: Department of Correction11,529$8,00011 months
City of New York: Department of Transportation8,921$35,0003.2 years
City of New York: Department of Education6,255$45,0003.1 years
City of New York: Department of Sanitation3,375$60,0002.7 years
City of New York: Parks & Recreation3,021$50,0002.8 years
City of New York: Fire Department (FDNY)2,594$45,0002.6 years
MTA / NYC Transit1,018$50,0004.3 years
City of New York: NYC Health + Hospitals1,013$175,0003.2 years
City of New York: Environmental Protection902$50,0003 years
NYCHA880$55,0003.1 years
City of New York: Housing Preservation & Development149$82,5003.6 years
City of New York: Homeless Services138$30,0002.3 years
State of New York107$65,0002.9 years
City of New York: Administration for Children's Services95$60,0002.9 years
Other public defendants82$52,5003.6 years
Other municipalities66$268,4943.2 years
Port Authority47$75,0003.7 years

Firms with the most recoveries against City of New York

  1. Michael T. Ridge, Esq. — 1,512 recoveries, $45.57 million in total
  2. Rubenstein & Rynecki — 812 recoveries, $173 million in total
  3. Sim & Associates, PLLC — 727 recoveries, $29.9 million in total
  4. Tracie A. Sundack & Associates, LLC — 661 recoveries, $15.14 million in total
  5. Decolator Cohen & Diprisco — 619 recoveries, $83.42 million in total

Firms with the most recoveries against City of New York: Police Department (NYPD)

  1. Sim & Associates, PLLC — 576 recoveries, $25.3 million in total
  2. Rubenstein & Rynecki — 493 recoveries, $103 million in total
  3. Shulman & Hill — 297 recoveries, $14.75 million in total
  4. Jonathan L. Gleit, Esq. — 280 recoveries, $13.98 million in total
  5. Getz & Braverman, P.C. — 233 recoveries, $21.5 million in total

Firms with the most recoveries against City of New York: Department of Correction

  1. Tracie A. Sundack & Associates, LLC — 263 recoveries, $6.76 million in total
  2. Nass Roper & Levin, P.C. — 89 recoveries, $3.03 million in total
  3. Slater Slater Schulman LLP — 59 recoveries, $66.94 million in total
  4. Law Office of Andrew C. Laufer, PLLC (Laufer Law Group) — 45 recoveries, $4.08 million in total
  5. Michael T. Ridge, Esq. — 39 recoveries, $864,000 in total

Firms with the most recoveries against City of New York: Department of Transportation

  1. D'Agostino & Associates, P.C. (The Law Firm of Jonathan D'Agostino & Associates) — 294 recoveries, $24.74 million in total
  2. Mallilo & Grossman Attorneys at Law (Mallilo & Grossman) — 148 recoveries, $8.48 million in total
  3. Sanders, Aronova, Grossman, Woycik, Viener & Kalant, P.C. (The Sanders Law Firm) — 75 recoveries, $5 million in total
  4. Raphaelson & Levine Law Firm, P.C. — 55 recoveries, $8.42 million in total
  5. Elefterakis, Elefterakis & Panek (EEP Law) — 51 recoveries, $22.47 million in total

Firms with the most recoveries against City of New York: Department of Education

  1. Rubenstein & Rynecki — 98 recoveries, $16.74 million in total
  2. Pena & Kahn, PLLC — 84 recoveries, $9.36 million in total
  3. D'Agostino & Associates, P.C. (The Law Firm of Jonathan D'Agostino & Associates) — 68 recoveries, $8.6 million in total
  4. Mirman, Markovits & Landau, P.C. — 57 recoveries, $3.93 million in total
  5. Slater Slater Schulman LLP — 55 recoveries, $63.87 million in total

Firms with the most recoveries against City of New York: Department of Sanitation

  1. D'Agostino & Associates, P.C. (The Law Firm of Jonathan D'Agostino & Associates) — 50 recoveries, $7.28 million in total
  2. Krentsel Guzman Herbert, LLP — 47 recoveries, $23.33 million in total
  3. Harmon, Linder & Rogowsky — 47 recoveries, $7.26 million in total
  4. Block O'Toole & Murphy, LLP — 27 recoveries, $47.67 million in total
  5. Subin Associates, LLP (Subin Law) — 27 recoveries, $22.76 million in total

Firms with the most recoveries against City of New York: Parks & Recreation

  1. D'Agostino & Associates, P.C. (The Law Firm of Jonathan D'Agostino & Associates) — 187 recoveries, $18.88 million in total
  2. Raphaelson & Levine Law Firm, P.C. — 32 recoveries, $6.26 million in total
  3. Wingate, Russotti, Shapiro, Moses & Halperin, LLP — 29 recoveries, $7.81 million in total
  4. Elefterakis, Elefterakis & Panek (EEP Law) — 26 recoveries, $12.18 million in total
  5. Harmon, Linder & Rogowsky — 24 recoveries, $1.54 million in total

Firms with the most recoveries against City of New York: Fire Department (FDNY)

  1. Harmon, Linder & Rogowsky — 52 recoveries, $4.57 million in total
  2. William Schwitzer & Associates, P.C. — 26 recoveries, $20.68 million in total
  3. Mallilo & Grossman Attorneys at Law (Mallilo & Grossman) — 23 recoveries, $2.05 million in total
  4. Shikh Law (Law Firm of Nonna Shikh) — 22 recoveries, $635,000 in total
  5. Law Offices of Bryan Barenbaum — 19 recoveries, $1.67 million in total

Firms with the most recoveries against MTA / NYC Transit

  1. D'Agostino & Associates, P.C. (The Law Firm of Jonathan D'Agostino & Associates) — 32 recoveries, $2.99 million in total
  2. Rubenstein & Rynecki — 15 recoveries, $2.84 million in total
  3. Subin Associates, LLP (Subin Law) — 14 recoveries, $23.62 million in total
  4. Mallilo & Grossman Attorneys at Law (Mallilo & Grossman) — 14 recoveries, $698,500 in total
  5. Harmon, Linder & Rogowsky — 12 recoveries, $791,000 in total

Firms with the most recoveries against City of New York: Environmental Protection

  1. D'Agostino & Associates, P.C. (The Law Firm of Jonathan D'Agostino & Associates) — 40 recoveries, $3.85 million in total
  2. Elefterakis, Elefterakis & Panek (EEP Law) — 24 recoveries, $6.85 million in total
  3. Mallilo & Grossman Attorneys at Law (Mallilo & Grossman) — 16 recoveries, $1.26 million in total
  4. Raphaelson & Levine Law Firm, P.C. — 12 recoveries, $1.39 million in total
  5. Subin Associates, LLP (Subin Law) — 10 recoveries, $11.16 million in total

Firms with the most recoveries against NYCHA

  1. Mirman, Markovits & Landau, P.C. — 32 recoveries, $2.11 million in total
  2. Harmon, Linder & Rogowsky — 22 recoveries, $4.22 million in total
  3. Harris Keenan & Goldfarb PLLC — 15 recoveries, $3.2 million in total
  4. Greenstein & Pittari, LLP — 15 recoveries, $1.21 million in total
  5. Subin Associates, LLP (Subin Law) — 11 recoveries, $5.99 million in total

Firms with the most recoveries against City of New York: Housing Preservation & Development

  1. Leav & Steinberg LLP — 4 recoveries, $829,000 in total
  2. Wingate, Russotti, Shapiro, Moses & Halperin, LLP — 3 recoveries, $1.8 million in total
  3. Mallilo & Grossman Attorneys at Law (Mallilo & Grossman) — 3 recoveries, $240,000 in total
  4. D'Agostino & Associates, P.C. (The Law Firm of Jonathan D'Agostino & Associates) — 3 recoveries, $205,000 in total

Firms with the most recoveries against City of New York: Homeless Services

  1. Subin Associates, LLP (Subin Law) — 5 recoveries, $3.73 million in total
  2. Rubenstein & Rynecki — 5 recoveries, $820,000 in total
  3. Law Office of Andrew C. Laufer, PLLC (Laufer Law Group) — 3 recoveries, $620,000 in total

Firms with the most recoveries against State of New York

  1. Law Offices of Jonathan D. Mandell — 4 recoveries, $553,624 in total
  2. Pena & Kahn, PLLC — 3 recoveries, $360,000 in total
  3. Sacco & Fillas, LLP — 3 recoveries, $285,000 in total

Firms with the most recoveries against City of New York: Administration for Children's Services

  1. Slater Slater Schulman LLP — 3 recoveries, $1.84 million in total
  2. Held & Hines, LLP — 3 recoveries, $1.45 million in total
  3. Curis Law, PLLC — 3 recoveries, $1.1 million in total

Firms with the most recoveries against Other public defendants

  1. Pena & Kahn, PLLC — 4 recoveries, $180,000 in total

Firms with the most recoveries against Port Authority

  1. Decolator Cohen & Diprisco — 4 recoveries, $1.59 million in total

What these figures can and can't tell you

  • Payments and resolved cases from public records (City records, court decisions, press).
  • A case counts under every public defendant it names, so agency totals here are a little higher than on the What New York City Pays page, which counts each payment once under the agency responsible.
  • Firms are ranked by the number of recoveries against each defendant in public records where they were the plaintiff's firm of record; only firms listed on SettleScore appear.

Every figure on this page comes from the records; nothing is estimated. Groups with fewer than 10 records show no figures. How we collect records