Opinion
2012-10-23
Raouti MANGAR, Plaintiff–Appellant, v. PARKASH 180 LLC, et al., Defendants–Respondents.
Michelle S. Russo, P.C., Port Washington (Michelle S. Russo of counsel), for appellant. White & McSpedon, P.C., New York (Frances Norek Hatch of counsel), for respondents.
Michelle S. Russo, P.C., Port Washington (Michelle S. Russo of counsel), for appellant. White & McSpedon, P.C., New York (Frances Norek Hatch of counsel), for respondents.
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Mark Friedlander, J.), entered September 16, 2011, which granted defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Defendants established that the half-inch height differential at the top of a two-step exterior stairway was trivial and nonactionable ( see Trincere v. County of Suffolk, 90 N.Y.2d 976, 977, 665 N.Y.S.2d 615, 688 N.E.2d 489 [1997];Morales v. Riverbay Corp., 226 A.D.2d 271, 641 N.Y.S.2d 276 [1st Dept. 1996] ). In opposition, plaintiff, who had walked on the steps twice daily for years without incident, failed to raise a triable issueof fact.