Opinion
December 21, 1999
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Jerry Crispino, J.), entered October 23, 1998, which granted defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Mark E. Cohen for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Paul N. Hodys for Defendants-Respondents.
SULLIVAN, J.P., ROSENBERGER, NARDELLI, WILLIAMS, FRIEDMAN, JJ.
The hazard to which plaintiff attributes her fall and injury, an uneven, raised and torn area of carpeting on premises owned by defendants, did not constitute a structural and/or design defect violative of a statute (see, Levy v. Daitz, 196 A.D.2d 454). Accordingly, defendants, out-of-possession landlords who, pursuant to a lease, retained the right to reenter the subject premises to make needed repairs but did not undertake to repair or maintain the premises, may not be held liable for plaintiff's harm (see,Manning v. New York Tel. Co., 157 A.D.2d 264).
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.