Castillo v. Akdeniz Realty, LLC

91 A.D.3d 531, 936 N.Y.2d 546

Opinion

Plaintiff seeks damages for injuries she sustained when she slipped and fell on the stairway outside the front door of defendants’ premises. As a matter of law, Administrative Code of City of NY § 27-375 does not apply to these exterior stairs because the stairs were not “used as exits in lieu of interior stairs” pursuant to section 27-376 (see Gaston v New York City Hous. Auth., 258 AD2d 220 [1999]). “Exit” is defined as “[a] means of egress from the interior of a building to an open exterior space” (Administrative Code § 27-232). This stairway “was outside the parameters of the building [and] did not provide a means of egress from the interior of the building to an open exterior space” (Gaston, 258 AD2d at 224). Concur— Andrias, J.E, Sweeny, Moskowitz, Renwick and Freedman, JJ.