Abreu v. Stratford Realty Associates

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Bertram Katz, J.) entered July 1, 1993, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, and order, same court and Justice, entered November 24, 1993, which denied plaintiff’s motion for, inter alia, renewal, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Since defendant landlord’s failure to provide heat and hot water is not a proximate cause of the injuries sustained by plaintiff when she stumbled while carrying a pot of hot water, which she had heated on her stove, into the bathroom, the complaint must be dismissed pursuant to…