Opinion
12755 Index No. 20851/16E Case No. 2020-01440
01-12-2021
Valerio ABAD, Plaintiff–Appellant, v. BROOKFIELD PROPERTIES OLP CO. LLC, et al., Defendants–Respondents.
Michael H. Zhu, New York, for appellant. Ahmuty, Demers & McManus, Albertson (Glenn A. Kaminska of counsel), for respondents.
Michael H. Zhu, New York, for appellant.
Ahmuty, Demers & McManus, Albertson (Glenn A. Kaminska of counsel), for respondents.
Renwick, J.P., Gische, Kern, Oing, Mendez, JJ.
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lucindo Suarez, J), entered August 19, 2019, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability on his Labor Law § 240(1) cause of action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
There are triable issues regarding whether the fall of the door was the goal of the demolition work being performed (compare Wilinski v. 334 E. 92nd Hous. Dev. Fund Corp., 18 N.Y.3d 1, 11, 935 N.Y.S.2d 551, 959 N.E.2d 488 [2011] ; Diaz v. Raveh Realty, LLC, 182 A.D.3d 515, 120 N.Y.S.3d 776 [1st Dept. 2020] ; Tropea v. Tishman Constr. Corp., 172 A.D.3d 450, 100 N.Y.S.3d 237 [1st Dept. 2019] ) and whether the door was the type of object that required securing under the statute (compare Outar v. City of New York, 5 N.Y.3d 731, 799 N.Y.S.2d 770, 832 N.E.2d 1186 [2005] ; Diaz, 182 A.D.3d 515, 120 N.Y.S.3d 776 ; Ragubir v. Gibraltar Mgt. Co., Inc., 146 A.D.3d 563, 564, 45 N.Y.S.3d 76 [1st Dept. 2017] ; with Salazar v. Novalex Contr. Corp., 18 N.Y.3d 134, 139–140, 936 N.Y.S.2d 624, 960 N.E.2d 393 [2011] ).