Opinion
2013-06-6
Johnnie Mae WRIGHT, Plaintiff–Appellant, v. FRAWLEY PLAZA HOUSES, INC., Defendant–Respondent.
Sim & Record, LLP, Bayside (Sang J. Sim of counsel), for appellant. Curan & Ahlers, LLP, White Plains (Keith J. Ahlers of counsel), for respondent.
Sim & Record, LLP, Bayside (Sang J. Sim of counsel), for appellant. Curan & Ahlers, LLP, White Plains (Keith J. Ahlers of counsel), for respondent.
TOM, J.P., ANDRIAS, RENWICK, DeGRASSE, GISCHE, JJ.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Paul Wooten, J.), entered January 27, 2012, which granted defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff was injured when, while on the second-floor plaza of defendant's building, she leaned over the parapet wall that surrounded the plaza and fell to the ground. Defendant established its entitlement to judgment as a matter of law by submitting, inter alia, photographs of the plaza showing the absence of any actionable defects ( see Tagle v. Jakob, 97 N.Y.2d 165, 169–170, 737 N.Y.S.2d 331, 763 N.E.2d 107 [2001] ), and the affidavit of an expert who opined that the parapet wall surrounding the plaza complied with the Building Code ( see Administrative Code of City of N.Y. § 27–334).
Plaintiff's opposition failed to raise a triable issue of fact. Plaintiff's testimony does not support a finding that optical confusion was a proximate cause of her accident ( see Garcia v. New York City Indus. Dev. Agency, 279 A.D.2d 328, 718 N.Y.S.2d 351 [1st Dept. 2001] ). Moreover, even accepting plaintiff's claim that she was locked out of the building after entering the plaza, her action of leaning over the 45–inch parapet wall was an unforeseeable, superseding cause of the accident ( see e.g. Rhodes v. East 81st, LLC, 81 A.D.3d 453, 916 N.Y.S.2d 85 [1st Dept. 2011] ).
We have considered plaintiff's remaining arguments, including that defendant's motion was untimely, and find them unavailing.