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Walters v New York City Hous. Auth.
2004 NY Slip Op 51030(U)
Decided on September 16, 2004
Appellate Term, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.


Decided on September 16, 2004
APPELLATE TERM OF THE SUPREME COURT, FIRST DEPARTMENT

PRESENT:
HON. LUCINDO SUAREZ, P.J.
HON. WILLIAM J. DAVIS
HON. MARTIN SCHOENFELD, Justices.
570120/03

LUCY WALTERS, Plaintiff-Appellant,

against

NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY, and THE CITY OF NEW YORK, Defendants-Respondents.


Plaintiff appeals from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Bronx County, entered August 12, 1999 (Laura G. Douglas, J.) which granted defendants' cross motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.


PER CURIAM:

Order entered August 12, 1999 (Laura G. Douglas, J.) modified to deny the cross motion of defendant New York City Housing Authority for summary judgment and to reinstate the complaint against it, and as so modified, affirmed, without costs.

The negligence action seeks damages for injuries allegedly sustained by plaintiff when she slipped and fell on snow and ice located on the sidewalk in front of defendant housing authority's premises. Summary judgment in favor of the housing authority is precluded by issues of fact as to whether its maintenance staff adequately salted and sanded the path it had attempted to clear along the sidewalk the day preceding plaintiff's accident and, if not, whether its snow removal efforts created or increased the ice hazard that caused plaintiff's injury (see, Ramirez v Bri Realty, Inc., 2 AD3d 369 [2003]; Salazar v KFC Natl. Mgt. Co., 260 AD2d 171 [1999]). The [*2]action was properly dismissed as against the City, however, there being no record or legal support for plaintiff's argument below that the housing authority shoveled the snow on behalf of or at the "request[ ]" of the City. Plaintiff's present contention that the City breached its own snow removal duties, raised for the first time on appeal, is not properly considered.

This constitutes the decision and order of the court.