Crosby v. Ogden Services Corp.

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Leland DeGrasse, J.), entered April 10, 1996, which denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendant, which contracted with plaintiff’s employer to perform janitorial services on the employer’s premises, including the interior stairway where plaintiff fell, can be held liable to plaintiff for its negligent performance or nonperformance of those duties (Palka v Servicemaster Mgt. Servs. Corp., 83 NY2d 579). Given this duty of reasonable care to plaintiff, and assuming, as plaintiff claims, that the cause of…