Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The plaintiff allegedly fell from a staircase in the subcellar level of the defendant's building. In a premises liability case, the defendant owner moving for summary judgment has the initial burden of establishing that it did not create a defective condition or have actual or constructive notice of its existence for a sufficient length of time to discover and remedy it (see Mejia v City of...
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