Faber v. New York City Housing Authority

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert Lippmann, J.), entered December 13, 1995, which granted defendants’ motions for a bifurcated trial, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff alleges that he was made dizzy when he was hit in the head by the door of a malfunctioning elevator in a Housing Authority building and that the dizziness later caused him to fall off a subway platform and be hit by an oncoming train. Defendants Transit Authority, Housing Authority and elevator maintenance company, who defend on the basis that plaintiff jumped off the platform in an apparent suicide…