Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2008

Ridolfi v. Williams

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided March 6, 2008

49 A.D.3d 295; 853 N.Y.2d 56

Cases that cite this one

12 later published cases cite this decision.

De Clef Pineiro v. American Museum of Natural History (New York Supreme Court, New York County 2024)
Reid v. 645 LLC (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2023)
Landau v. Balbona Rest. Corp. (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2019)
Bardales v. VAM Realty Corp. (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2015)
Seleman v. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2014)
Seleman v. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2014)
Igbodudu-Edwards v. Board of Managers of the Parkchester North Condominium, Inc. (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2013)
Igbodudu-Edwards v. Board of Managers of the Parkchester North Condominium, Inc. (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2013)
Robinson v. 156 Broadway Associates, LLC (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2012)
Robinson v. 156 Broadway Associates, LLC (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2012)
Raghu v. New York City Housing Authority (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2010)
Daniarov v. New York City Transit Authority (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2009)

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Opinion of the Court

*296The record evidence establishes that summary judgment was properly granted in this action where plaintiff was injured when she slipped on the bottom step of defendants’ exterior staircase during a rainstorm, and fell forward. The subject staircase was equipped with handrails on both sides and plaintiff testified that despite the wet conditions, she did not hold onto the handrail as she descended the stairs, which, according to both parties’ experts, had a coefficient of friction above the standard. Regardless of the existence of any alleged building code violation in the configuration of the handrails, such was not a proximate cause of plaintiffs fall, and to find that the presence of an alternative handrail configuration would have prevented the fall would be based on speculation (see Plowden v Stevens Partners, LLC, 45 AD3d 659 [2007]; see also Jenkins v New York City Hous. Auth., 11 AD3d 358, 359-360 [2004]). Concur— Mazzarelli, J.P., Saxe, Gonzalez and Acosta, JJ. [See 2007 NY Slip Op 31539(U).]

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