Castro v. New York City Transit Authority

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Janice L. Bowman, J.), entered June 8, 2007, which denied defendant Transit Authority’s motion for summary judgment on its third-party claims, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff in the main action slipped shortly after exiting the staircase from the elevated platform at the IRT station at 161st Street/Yankee Stadium. She testified that she took one or two steps, then slipped on a foreign substance allegedly leaking from pipes overhead. At the time of the accident, a major station renovation, under the auspices of third-party defendant general…