Ledesma v. AMA Grocery, Corp.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Wilma Guzman, J.), entered January 14, 2016, which denied defendants-appellants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against them, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendants-appellants argue that they were out-of-possession landlords who were not responsible to maintain the area where plaintiff fell on a raised metal strip at the edge of a step at the entrance to the tenant’s deli/grocery.

An out-of-possession landlord is generally not liable for negligence with respect to the condition of property after transfer of possession and…