RIOS v. NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY


48 A.D.3d 661 (2008)

852 N.Y.S.2d 283

JOSE RIOS, Appellant, v. NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY, Respondent.

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

Decided February 19, 2008.


Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiff alleges that he was injured when he slipped and fell on a cracked or broken step while descending a stairwell in a building owned and operated by the defendant in Brooklyn. The Supreme Court granted the defendant's motion for summary judgment and denied, as academic, the plaintiff's cross motion to strike the defendant's answer. We affirm.

The defendant met its initial burden on its motion for summary...

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