Opinion
2013-01-3
Jeffrey MARRERO, Plaintiff–Appellant, Jessie Marrero, Plaintiff, v. The CITY OF NEW YORK, et al., Defendants–Respondents, Sony Music Entertainment, Inc., Defendant. The City of New York, et al., Third Party Plaintiffs–Respondents, v. USI Services Inc., et al., Third Party Defendants–Respondents. Strike Force Protective Services, Inc., et al., Fourth Party Plaintiff–Respondents, v. Concert Service Specialist Inc., Fourth Party Defendant–Respondent. [And a Third Third–Party Action].
Budin, Reisman, Kupferberg & Bernstein LLP, New York (Gregory C. McMahon of counsel), for appellant. Havkins Rosenfeld Ritzert & Varriale LLP, New York (Steven H. Rosenfeld of counsel), for The City of New York, Delsener/Slater Enterprises Ltd., and Live Nation Worldwide, Inc., respondents.
Budin, Reisman, Kupferberg & Bernstein LLP, New York (Gregory C. McMahon of counsel), for appellant. Havkins Rosenfeld Ritzert & Varriale LLP, New York (Steven H. Rosenfeld of counsel), for The City of New York, Delsener/Slater Enterprises Ltd., and Live Nation Worldwide, Inc., respondents.
Mandelbaum, Salsburg, Lazris & Discenza, PC, New York (Owen J. Lipnick of counsel), for Strike Force Protective Services, Inc., and USI Services Group Inc., respondents.
Pisciotti, Malsch & Buckley, P.C., White Plains (Ryan Lawrence Erdreich of counsel), for Concert Service Specialists, Inc., respondent.
GONZALEZ, P.J., FRIEDMAN, SAXE, RICHTER, ABDUS–SALAAM, JJ.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen A. Rakower, J.), entered August 18, 2011, which, insofar as appealed from, granted defendants City of New York, Delsner Enterprises Ltd., Delsner/Slater Enterprises, Ltd., and Live Nation, Inc.'s motion for summary judgment dismissing plaintiff Jeffrey Marrero's (plaintiff) first-party claim in its entirety, and dismissing, as moot, the third-party action and fourth-party action in their entireties, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Supreme Court properly determined that respondents met their initial burden of showing that they provided adequate security measures at Ozzfest 2006, an outdoor concert held on Randall's Island ( see Rotz v. City of New York, 143 A.D.2d 301, 305, 532 N.Y.S.2d 245 [1st Dept.1988] ). Respondents submitted evidence showing that meetings were held with the NYPD to assess the security plans proposed, and that they ultimately provided 215 personnel to secure the concert, the attendance of which was about 10,000 to 12,000, and that such security would have been sufficient for a crowd of 30,000. Plaintiffs offered no evidence, expert or otherwise, to show that such security was inadequate ( see Villa v. Paradise Theater Prods., Inc., 85 A.D.3d 402, 924 N.Y.S.2d 364 [1st Dept.2011];Florman v. City of New York, 293 A.D.2d 120, 125–127, 741 N.Y.S.2d 233 [1st Dept.2002] ).
Contrary to plaintiff's contention, there is no evidence in the record to show that the unidentified person who shoved him was actually engaged in dangerous “moshing” or slam dancing; plaintiff himself testified that he was unsure whether his injury was due to an intentional push or someone simply bumping into him. In either case, however, that unidentified nonparty caused plaintiff's fall, and under the circumstances here, respondents cannot be held liable for such unforeseen conduct ( see Maheshwari v. City of New York, 2 N.Y.3d 288, 294, 778 N.Y.S.2d 442, 810 N.E.2d 894 [2004];Djurkovic v. Three Goodfellows, 1 A.D.3d 210, 767 N.Y.S.2d 108 [1st Dept.2003],lv. denied2 N.Y.3d 701, 778 N.Y.S.2d 459, 810 N.E.2d 912 [2004];Stafford v. 6 Crannel St., 304 A.D.2d 997, 998, 759 N.Y.S.2d 231 [3d Dept.2003] ).
We have considered plaintiff's remaining contentions and find them unavailing.