According to plaintiff, he slipped and fell while descending the stairway from the mezzanine level to the lobby of the Westbury Hotel, operated by defendants-appellants in Manhattan. Plaintiff attributes his fall to a Christmas garland which had been affixed by defendants and apparently slipped off the bannister and onto the stairs. As this Court held in Trujillo v Riverbay Corp. (
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