Zhao v. Brookfield Office Properties, Inc.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Geoffrey D. Wright, J.), entered June 17, 2014, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendants established entitlement to judgment as a matter of law in this action where plaintiff was injured when she allegedly lost her balance and fell when stepping off a low concrete platform onto a cobblestone-covered surface. Defendants demonstrated that the cobblestone-covered area was an open and obvious condition and was not inherently dangerous (see e.g. Abraido v 2001 Marcus Ave.,…