Cooper v. Starrett City Inc.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Sharon A.M. Aarons, J.), entered November 18, 2013, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

During a heat wave in early June of 2008, plaintiffs decedent, Ellis Cooper, who was disabled and wheelchair bound, suffered a heat stroke and died on June 10, 2008. At the time of his death, Cooper had been living with his mother and brother in an apartment located within the 46-building complex known as Spring Creek Towers in Brooklyn, which is owned by defendant Starrett City. The complex…