{"id":369156,"date":"2026-10-09T19:16:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369156\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T19:16:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:16:45","slug":"citibank-loses-20-year-old-brooklyn-foreclosure-over-botched-service-of-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369156\/","title":{"rendered":"Citibank loses 20-year-old Brooklyn foreclosure over botched service of process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p paraeid=\"{607f8650-ed12-411a-a341-3e891a3b7cdf}{90}\" paraid=\"1161964908\">That might have been the end of the story. It wasn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{607f8650-ed12-411a-a341-3e891a3b7cdf}{92}\" paraid=\"1157165062\">The homeowner moved to vacate both orders and dismiss the case, arguing the court never had jurisdiction over him because he was never properly served. The Supreme Court, Kings County, denied that motion in August 2023. He appealed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{607f8650-ed12-411a-a341-3e891a3b7cdf}{94}\" paraid=\"708225729\">The Second Department sided with the homeowner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{607f8650-ed12-411a-a341-3e891a3b7cdf}{96}\" paraid=\"1945065264\">Under New York\u2019s CPLR 308, serving a person by affixing papers to their door and mailing a copy &#8211; what lawyers call \u201cnail and mail\u201d service under CPLR 308(4) &#8211; is a last resort. A plaintiff can only use it after showing that personal delivery under CPLR 308(1) and (2) could not be accomplished \u201cwith due diligence.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{607f8650-ed12-411a-a341-3e891a3b7cdf}{98}\" paraid=\"1085512955\">Citibank\u2019s process server fell short, the court found. The server attempted personal delivery only twice, both during weekday hours &#8211; when, the court noted, \u201cit could reasonably have been expected that the defendant was either working or in transit to or from work.\u201d There was also \u201cno evidence that the process server made any genuine inquiries about the defendant\u2019s whereabouts and place of business.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That might have been the end of the story. It wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 The homeowner moved to vacate both orders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[136310,98,100,99,18351,5682,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-369156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-botched-service","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-citibank","tag-foreclosure","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}