Legal Opinion
Fontanez v. New York City Housing Authority
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 29, 1996PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Stanley Green, J.), entered May 31, 1994, which denied defendant Housing Authority’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff has raised issues of fact concerning defendant’s failure to replace a missing door handle on the door leading from the interior stairwell into the residential hallway, whether such missing door handle substantially contributed to the criminal assault on plaintiff, and whether said occurrence was reasonably foreseeable (see, Rodriguez v New York City Hous. Auth., 211 AD2d 328, 331;…
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