Adamo v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Marylin G. Diamond, J.), entered December 3, 2008, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff Maureen Adamo tripped and fell as she was ascending the stairs of a stopped escalator at Manhattan’s Penn Station; she attributed the accident to the uneven spacing of the escalator’s risers or steps. Following discovery, defendants satisfied their initial burden of showing, prima facie, the absence of material issues of fact by demonstrating, through competent evidence in the…