Case Name: Jacqueline Do Espirito Santo, Respondent, v. City of New York et al., Respondents, and New York City Educational Construction Fund, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2000-06-16
Citations: 185 Misc. 2d 517
Docket Number: 
Parties: Jacqueline Do Espirito Santo, Respondent, v City of New York et al., Respondents, and New York City Educational Construction Fund, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 185
Pages: 517–518

Head Matter:
[716 NYS2d 549]
Jacqueline Do Espirito Santo, Respondent, v City of New York et al., Respondents, and New York City Educational Construction Fund, Appellant.
Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department,
June 16, 2000
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Ahmuty, Demers & McManus, Albertson (Joseph A. Oliva of counsel), for appellant. Michael D. Hess, Corporation Counsel (Larry A. Sonnenshein and Kathleen Alberton of counsel), for City of New York and another, respondents.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Per Curiam.
Order entered June 14, 1999 reversed, with $10 costs, motion granted, and complaint dismissed. The clerk is directed to enter judgment in favor of defendant-appellant dismissing the complaint as against it.
The hazard to which plaintiff attributes her fall and injury, an uneven and "uplift [ed]" exterior step on premises owned by defendant-appellant, is not alleged or shown to constitute a defect violative of any specific statutory safety provision (see, Manning v New York Tel. Co., 157 AD2d 264). No basis is shown, therefore, to impose liability upon defendant, an out-of-possession owner which had relinquished control over the premises years before the occurrence of plaintiffs injury (supra; Gomez v Walton Realty Assocs., 258 AD2d 307).
Parness, P. J., McCooe and Gangel-Jacob, JJ., concur.