Montilla v. River Park Associates

—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lucindo Suarez, J.), entered January 21, 2000, which denied defendants’ motion for a change of venue to Nassau County and granted plaintiffs cross motion to retain venue in Bronx County, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the motion to change venue granted and the cross motion denied.

In this personal injury action based on a slip and fall by a home care attendant on the Bronx sidewalk leading to her patient’s building, plaintiffs counsel designated Bronx County as venue based on his mistaken belief that defendant-owner River Park Associates’…