The action was properly transferred to Queens County where plaintiff was arrested, initially incarcerated and prosecuted. CPLR 504 (3), which provides that the place of trial in an action against the City shall be in the county within the City where the cause of action arose, "should be complied with absent compelling countervailing circumstances" (Rose v Grow-Perini,
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