Shernicoff v. 1700 Broadway Co.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Leland DeGrasse, J.), entered on or about March 11, 2002, which, in an action for personal injuries sustained in a slip and fall in the lobby of defendants’ building, granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff claims that it was raining for an hour when he arrived at defendants’ building and walked through the lobby to the elevator bank, where he encountered a porter putting down mats; that in order to catch an open elevator door, he had to walk hastily and step around the…