Opinion
August 31, 1998
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (Pollizi, J.).
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff alleges that on February 9, 1994, at approximately 3:00 P.M., she was injured when she slipped and fell on an accumulation of snow and ice on the sidewalk in front of a building owned by the defendant Steven Alexandrou (hereinafter the owner). The lease between the owner and the codefendant, La Bruzzi's Deli, the street-level store located within the building, provided that it was the store's obligation. to clean the sidewalk and to remove snow and ice during the winter months. In addition, the owner of the store testified that he cleaned the entire sidewalk on the morning of the day of the accident.
An owner of property is under no duty to pedestrians to remove ice and snow that naturally accumulates upon the sidewalk in front of his or her premises ( Roark v. Hunting, 24 N.Y.2d 470, 475; Reidy v. EZE Equip. Co., 234 A.D.2d 593; Cannon v. Pfleider, 19 A.D.2d 625). There is no evidence demonstrating that the owner here made the sidewalk more hazardous by attempting to remove the snow and ice ( see, Oley v. Village of Massapequa Park, 198 A.D.2d 272). Under these circumstances, the court properly granted the motion for summary judgment.
Since the plaintiff is not a resident of this State, the court also properly required her to post security for costs in compliance with CPLR 8501 (a) ( see, Gonzalez v. Flushing Hosp. Med. Ctr., 245 A.D.2d 543; Scharaga v. Schwartzberg, 149 A.D.2d 578).
The plaintiff's remaining contentions are without merit.
Miller, J. P., Copertino, Pizzuto and Santucci, JJ., concur.