Amsel v. New York Convention Center Operating Corporation

• Decision Date: 24 March 2009
• Docket Number: 124.
• Citation: 875 N.Y.S.2d 476,60 A.D.3d 534,2009 NY Slip Op 02230
• Parties: GEORGE AMSEL et al., Respondents, v. NEW YORK CONVENTION CENTER OPERATING CORPORATION, Also Known as THE JACOB K. JAVITS CONVENTION CENTER, Appellant.
• Court: New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

60 A.D.3d 534

875 N.Y.S.2d 476

2009 NY Slip Op 02230

GEORGE AMSEL et al., Respondents, v. NEW YORK CONVENTION CENTER OPERATING CORPORATION, Also Known as THE JACOB K. JAVITS CONVENTION CENTER, Appellant.

124.

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

Decided March 24, 2009.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy S. Friedman, J.), entered June 9, 2008, which denied defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion

granted. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment in favor of defendant dismissing the complaint.

Defendant established prima facie its entitlement to summary judgment by demonstrating that it had rained earlier in the day and was raining at the time of plaintiff's accident and that defendant had taken reasonable precautions to prevent the tracked-in water from accumulating by placing mats on the lobby floor and mopping the floor throughout the day and had neither actual nor constructive notice of the particular wet condition that allegedly caused the accident (see Garcia v Delgado Travel Agency, 4 AD3d 204 [2004]). In opposition, plaintiffs failed to raise a triable issue of fact.

Concur — TOM, J.P., MAZZARELLI, NARDELLI, CATTERSON and MOSKOWITZ, JJ.