Opinion
2002-08952
Argued June 9, 2003.
September 29, 2003.
In an action, inter alia, to recover damages pursuant to General Municipal Law § 205-a, the plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Weiss, J.), dated May 3, 2002, which granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
Sullivan Papain Block McGrath Cannavo, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Stephen C. Glasser and Stewart G. Milch of counsel), for appellants.
Viscardi, Basner Bigelow, P.C., Jamaica, N.Y. (Luke Bigelow of counsel), for respondents.
Before: DAVID S. RITTER, J.P., SONDRA MILLER, DANIEL F. LUCIANO, HOWARD MILLER, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.
In opposition to the defendants' prima facie demonstration of entitlement to judgment as a matter of law dismissing the complaint, the plaintiffs failed to raise a triable issue of fact that there was a practical or reasonable connection between the alleged code violations and the claimed injuries ( see General Municipal Law § 205-a; Giuffrida v. Citibank Corp., 100 N.Y.2d 72), or that the defendants may be held liable for common-law negligence ( see General Obligations Law § 11-106; Acevedo v. Audubon Mgt., 280 A.D.2d 91; Allen v. Pearson Publ. Empire, 256 A.D.2d 528; cf. Whitfield v. City of New York, 239 A.D.2d 492).
RITTER, J.P., S. MILLER, LUCIANO and H. MILLER, JJ., concur.