Rivers v. Villford Realty Corp.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Mary Ann BriganttiHughes, J.), entered October 18, 2011, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Flaintiff slipped on calcium chloride, a substance used to treat and prevent ice conditions, while exiting her apartment building. She admitted observing the calcium chloride pellets before her fall. The record shows that the presence of the calcium chloride was open and obvious and not inherently dangerous (see Verdejo v New York City Hous. Auth., 105 AD3d 450 [1st Dept 2013]; Baynes v…