NOVIKOVA v. GREENBRIAR OWNERS


258 A.D.2d 149 (1999)

694 N.Y.S.2d 445

GALINA NOVIKOVA et al., Respondents, v. GREENBRIAR OWNERS CORP. et al., Appellants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

August 23, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, New York City (Kenneth N. Rashbaum and Howard R. Cohen of counsel), for appellants.

Worby, Borowick & Groner, L. L. P., White Plains (Richard Vecchio and Alicia Sandberg of counsel), for respondents.

SANTUCCI, LUCIANO and H. MILLER, JJ., concur.


OPINION OF THE COURT

RITTER, J. P.

The issue presented is whether the defendants' failure to have provided a 24-hour-a-day doorman at a residential apartment building constituted a breach of their duty to provide minimal precautions against the foreseeable criminal acts of third parties. We find that it did not.

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