Washington v. New York City Board of Education

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Cynthia S. Kern, J.), entered August 17, 2010, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff allegedly slipped and fell on an internal staircase in the Bayard Rustin Educational Complex building in Manhattan, where she worked as a school safety agent. In her notice of claim, she alleged that she ‘1 tripped/slipped and fell” on a “substance” and that the staircase was “unclean, dirty and contained a substance for an unreasonable amount of time.” Although she could not identify…