Romero v. Morrisania Towers Housing Co.

Plaintiff allegedly slipped and fell on a “brownish liquid” in the stairwell of a building owned and managed by the Morrisania defendants, cleaned by the FQM defendants, and monitored by McRoberts. Defendants failed to make a prima facie showing that they did not have notice of the hazardous *508condition. Indeed, they did not submit evidence, based on personal knowledge, of their fulfillment of their cleaning and inspection duties at the subject premises on the date in question. Accordingly, the burden did not shift to plaintiff regarding notice (see e.g. De La Cruz v Lettera Sign & Elec. Co.,…