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10327. LORRAINE M. MORABITO, plf-res, v. 11 PARK PLACE LLC defap — The Law Office of Edward M. Eustace, White Plains (Rose M. Cotter of counsel), for ap — Alexander J. Wulwick, New York, for res — Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Milton A. Tingling, J.), entered September 27, 2012, which denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In this action for personal injuries allegedly sustained by plaintiff when she slipped on water in defendants’ lobby, defendants demonstrated prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law by establishing that they did not have constructive notice of the water on the floor. In support of their motion, defendants submitted plaintiff’s testimony that it started raining five to ten minutes before she arrived at the building and that she did not see any water on the floor before she slipped. In addition, they submitted the testimony of a building employee who stated that it started to rain moments before plaintiff fell and that as soon as he observed the rain, he requested that mats be placed on the lobby floor just moments prior to plaintiff’s fall (Gordon v. American Museum of Natural History, 67 NY2d 836, 837 [1986]; see Garcia v. Delgado Travel Agency, 4 AD3d 204 [1st Dept 2004]). Defendants additional submission of an unaffirmed report from a weather reporting company, not accompanied by any certified weather records or admissible climatological reports, cannot be considered (see Zuckerman v. City of New York, 49 NY2d 557, 562 [1980]).

 
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