Perry v New York City Hous. Auth.
2014 NY Slip Op 02517 [116 AD3d 511]
April 10, 2014
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 28, 2014


Erik Perry, Appellant,
v
New York City Housing Authority, Respondent.

[*1] Burns & Harris, New York (Blake G. Goldfarb of counsel), for appellant.

Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C., New York (Sharyn Rootenberg of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Julia I. Rodriguez, J.), entered January 14, 2013, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, granted defendant's motion to strike certain allegations in plaintiff's bill of particulars, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion denied.

In this slip and fall action, plaintiff's notice of claim alleging that the stairway on which he fell was, among other things, slippery, uneven, worn, broken, and cracked, "fairly implie[s]" the more specific allegations set forth in the bill of particulars concerning, among other things, the uneven heights and widths of the risers and treads, and the slippery, worn paint covering the steps (see Dones v New York City Hous. Auth., 81 AD3d 554, 554 [1st Dept 2011]). Plaintiff's allegations that these conditions violated regulations and statutes do not assert a distinct or independent theory of liability. Concur—Friedman, J.P., Moskowitz, Freedman, Gische and Clark, JJ.