Melendez v. New York City Housing Authority

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alan J. Saks, J.), entered July 30, 2004, which granted defendant building owner’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff’s admission that she never saw what it was that caused her to slip renders her claim that it was food debris, a condition she had observed in the stairwell on previous visits to the building, mere speculation. In any event, assuming that it was a food debris/oily substance hazard that caused plaintiff to fall, there is no evidence tending to show that defendant created *212or had…