Armstrong v. Rapp

The entrance way from the sidewalk to the multiple dwelling No. 424 East One Hundred and Fifty-seventh street, borough of the Bronx, New York city, consists of a stoop with four stone steps. The first step from the entrance door is a plat*584form or landing. On each side of the first step or landing is a stone coping about eighteen inches high. On each one of these copings there are stone columns or pillars, one column partly projecting from the wall of the building. There is a space of seventeen inches separating the bases of the two columns.

On the second floor of this apartment house the infant…