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In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Peck, J.), dated July 3, 2003, which denied his motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is granted, and the complaint is dismissed.

On December 31, 2000, at approximately 10:40 p.m., the plaintiff Joseph Geneva slipped and fell on an accumulation of snow on the sidewalk in front of the house owned by his next-door neighbor, the defendant Jeffrey Lash.

The defendant established his entitlement to judgment as a matter of law by demonstrating that any purported negligence on his part was not a proximate cause of the injured plaintiff's injuries (see Maliszewska v Premier Distrib. Servs., 306 AD2d 517 [2003]). In opposition, the plaintiffs' conclusory and speculative evidence failed to demonstrate the existence of any genuine issue of fact (see Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557, 562 [1980]). Florio, J.P., Schmidt, Mastro and Rivera, JJ., concur.