Orozco v. 725 S. Blvd., LLC

Defendant landlord established prima facie that it neither knew nor had reason to know that the tenant’s dog that attacked plaintiff had vicious propensities (see Rivers v New York City Hous. Auth., 264 AD2d 342 [1999]). Although the building superintendent testified that the other tenants were frightened of the pit bull, he also said that he had never received any complaints about the animal or observed it acting aggressively and that during his own encounters with the dog in the hallway the dog passed him “at ease.” In opposition, plaintiff failed to raise any issues of fact. His testimony…