Personal Injury Lawyers in Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous borough in the city, and Kings County Supreme Court is one of the busiest civil courts in the state. Here is where your case would be filed, and what tends to be different about an injury claim brought here.
Where a Brooklyn injury case is filed
A personal injury case in Brooklyn is generally brought in the Supreme Court, Kings County, Civil Term, at:
- Kings County Supreme Court — 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
It is part of the 2nd Judicial District of the New York State Unified Court System. You do not need to live in Brooklyn for your case to belong there — venue generally follows where the accident happened or where one of the parties resides.
What tends to be different about a Brooklyn case
Brooklyn has the largest jury pool in the city, and Kings County carries one of the heaviest civil caseloads in New York State. In practice that means scheduling moves at its own pace, and a case that would be reached quickly elsewhere can sit longer here. It is a reason to file early rather than late.
The injury profile skews differently too. Brooklyn has among the highest cycling volumes in the city and a dense network of painted and protected lanes, so bicycle and door-opening collisions make up a larger share of the work. So do stoop and stair falls in the borough’s older walk-up and brownstone housing stock, and truck collisions along designated routes such as Atlantic Avenue.
The deadlines that apply
Three years is the usual limit for a claim against a private driver, business or property owner, under CPLR § 214. But if the City of New York, the MTA, NYC Transit, a public hospital or a school is involved, a written Notice of Claim is due within 90 days under General Municipal Law § 50-e, with the lawsuit itself due within one year and 90 days. A wrongful death claim runs two years from the date of death under EPTL § 5-4.1.
Separately, the no-fault application to your own insurer is due within 30 days of a motor vehicle crash, and no-fault does not cover pain and suffering — that requires meeting the “serious injury” threshold in Insurance Law § 5102(d). Our guide to how these claims work goes through both in plain English.
Neighborhoods we serve in Brooklyn
Bay Ridge, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bensonhurst, Boerum Hill, Borough Park, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn Heights, Bushwick, Canarsie, Carroll Gardens, Clinton Hill, Cobble Hill, Coney Island, Crown Heights, DUMBO, East New York, Flatbush, Fort Greene, Gowanus, Gravesend, Greenpoint, Marine Park, Midwood, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Red Hook, Sheepshead Bay, Sunset Park, Williamsburg and Windsor Terrace.
We also take cases in Queens, the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island, and across the rest of New York State. See the full coverage map.
The cases we handle in Brooklyn
- Motor vehicle accidents
- Pedestrian accidents and bicycle accidents
- Bus accidents, taxi accidents and Uber & Lyft accidents
- Construction and work injuries
- Slips, trips and falls and premises liability
- Truck accidents and wrongful death
The City publishes its street-safety data and redesign work through Vision Zero, a useful public record of the corridors that generate the most serious crashes.
Talk to us about a Brooklyn case
The consultation is free and there is no fee unless we win. If you are not sure whether you have a case, that is exactly the call to make — particularly if a city agency or the MTA may be involved, because of the 90-day clock.
Deadlines and their exceptions turn on facts specific to each case, so treat the dates above as the shape of the rule rather than as advice about your own claim.