Crockett v. New York City Housing Authority

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Alfred Toker, J.), entered June 12, 1992, which denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

On a motion for summary judgment, the moving party has the initial burden of establishing its entitlement to judgment as a matter of law (Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557, 562). While defendant urges that the assailants in this case could have been guests of a tenant, or could have gained access to the building other than through the unlocked front doors, there is no proof to support such speculation. Plaintiff…