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CARTER v. NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY

260 A.D.2d 528 (1999)

688 N.Y.S.2d 237

KIM CARTER, Appellant, v. NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY, Respondent.

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

Decided April 19, 1999.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiff allegedly sustained injuries when a door in her apartment shut on her hand. The defendant New York City Housing Authority, the owner of the building, was granted summary judgment dismissing the complaint. We affirm.

The court properly determined that the door at issue was not an inherently dangerous instrument simply because it lacked a door stop (see, Tjepkema v Rochdale Meat Mkt.,

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