Opinion
12867 Index No. 302504/14 Case No. 2019-03289
01-14-2021
Demoyne ANDERSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. VERIZON NEW YORK, INC., et al., Defendants, Cablevision Systems Corporation et al., Defendants-Respondents.
Pen~a & Kahn, PLLC, Bronx (Eric J. Gottfried of counsel), for appellant. Lester, Schwab Katz & Dwyer, LLP, New York (C. Briggs Johnson of counsel), for Cablevision Systems Corporation and Cablevision Systems New York City Corporation, respondents. Gannon, Rosenfarb & Drossman, New York (Lisa L. Gokhulsingh of counsel), for Beach Lane Management Co., and 1265 Olmstead Avenue, LLC, respondents.
Pen~a & Kahn, PLLC, Bronx (Eric J. Gottfried of counsel), for appellant.
Lester, Schwab Katz & Dwyer, LLP, New York (C. Briggs Johnson of counsel), for Cablevision Systems Corporation and Cablevision Systems New York City Corporation, respondents.
Gannon, Rosenfarb & Drossman, New York (Lisa L. Gokhulsingh of counsel), for Beach Lane Management Co., and 1265 Olmstead Avenue, LLC, respondents.
Manzanet–Daniels, J.P., Gische, Kapnick, Singh, Mendez, JJ.
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Howard Sherman, J.), entered on or about July 15, 2019, which granted defendants' motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against them, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff's attempt to walk through a pile of snow alongside the sidewalk as a shortcut to his parked car, instead of using the portion of the sidewalk that had been cleared of snow and ice, was the sole proximate cause of his accident (see McKenzie v. City of New York, 116 A.D.3d 526, 527, 984 N.Y.S.2d 32 [1st Dept. 2014] ; see also Tzamarot v. JP Morgan Chase & Co., 167 A.D.3d 550, 88 N.Y.S.3d 870 [1st Dept. 2018], lv. denied 33 N.Y.3d 904, 2019 WL 1998134 [2019] ).
We have considered plaintiff's remaining contentions and find them unavailing.