Gordy v City of New York
2009 NY Slip Op 08461 [67 AD3d 523]
November 17, 2009
Appellate Division, First Department
As corrected through Wednesday, January 6, 2010


Willie Gordy, Appellant,
v
City of New York,Respondent.

[*1]Raymond Schwartzberg & Associates, PLLC, New York (Raymond B. Schwartzberg ofcounsel), for appellant.

Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York (Susan Choi-Hausman of counsel), forrespondent.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Larry S. Schachner, J.), entered August 5, 2008,which, in an action for personal injuries sustained in a slip and fall on a patch of ice on asidewalk, granted defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint,unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendant established its prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law bysubmitting evidence demonstrating that the property that abutted the sidewalk where the accidentoccurred was a two-family dwelling owned by a corporate entity, and thus was notowner-occupied (Administrative Code of City of NY § 7-210; see Winegrad v NewYork Univ. Med. Ctr., 64 NY2d 851, 853 [1985]). Plaintiff's opposition did not raise atriable issue of fact as he failed to submit evidence regarding the occupancy of the property(see Faulk v City of New York, 16 Misc 3d 1108[A], 2007 NY Slip Op 51346[U][2007]). Concur—Gonzalez, P.J., Saxe, McGuire and Acosta, JJ.


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