Brandt v. Elghanayan

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Alfred Toker, J.), entered on or about November 19, 1996, which granted the landlord defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing plaintiff tenant’s complaint, unanimously modified, on the law, to deny the motion as to the first cause of action for negligence, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff alleges that she was raped and beaten by the only other resident of the building, an employee of defendants, after all other apartments had been vacated. Plaintiff’s theory that defendants should be held responsible because they negligently…