Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
On her motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, the defendant met her burden of submitting admissible proof that she did not direct or control the work of the contractor whom she hired to perform pointing work on the brick front of her two-family dwelling (see, Labor Law §§ 240, 241) and that the injury arose from a defect in the contractor's own tools (see,
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