Echevarria v. 158th St. Riverside Drive Housing Co.

*501The motion court properly denied Riverside’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint against it. Plaintiff, an employee of Gould Services, who leased the unit at issue from a nonparty to these two actions, alleged that she injured herself while repairing a crack in a terrace door when a gust of wind blew the door closed, causing the door to shut, and the cracked piece to hit her and knock her off of a stool. Riverside, the owner of the building, failed to eliminate any triable issue whether it had a duty, pursuant to an occupancy agreement, to repair the door. The occupancy…