Mack v New York Yankees Partnership

Mack v New York Yankees Partnership 2010 NY Slip Op 00586 [69 AD3d 542] January 28, 2010 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, March 10, 2010

William Mack, Appellant,
v
New York Yankees Partnership, Respondent.

—[*1] Hodges, Walsh & Slater, LLP, White Plains (Paul E. Svensson of counsel), for appellant.

Gordon & Silber, P.C., New York (Andrew B. Kaufman of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alexander W. Hunter, Jr., J.), entered March 5, 2009, which granted defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendant established prima facie entitlement to summary dismissal by submitting evidence that it had no notice of the condition on the stadium's escalator allegedly causing plaintiff's fall and that the escalator steps were reasonably safe for traversing, and plaintiff's opposition failed to create any material issue of fact. Although plaintiff alleged that water accumulated on the escalators each time it rained at Yankee Stadium, this raised no more than a general awareness that the escalators became wet during inclement weather, which was insufficient to establish constructive notice of the specific condition causing plaintiff's injury (Solazzo v New York City Tr. Auth., 6 NY3d 734 [2005]). Plaintiff produced no evidence to raise a factual issue as to whether defendant had received such notice from any other source (see Casado v OUB Houses Hous. Co. Inc., 59 AD3d 272 [2009]). Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Sweeny, Moskowitz, Manzanet-Daniels and RomÁn, JJ.