ERMA MITCHELL, Plaintiff-res-ap, v. LONG ACRE HOTEL def, NJB SECURITY SERVICES, INC., def-res, CIRCUIT LLC Defendants-Appellants-res

3131. ERMA MITCHELL, Plaintiff-res-ap, v. LONG ACRE HOTEL def, NJB SECURITY SERVICES, INC., def-res, CIRCUIT LLC Defendants-Appellants-res — Smith Mazure Director Wilkins Young & Yagerman, P.C., New York (Marcia K. Raicus of counsel), for appellants-res — Segal & Lax, New York (Patrick D. Gatti of counsel), for res-res — Lewis Johs Avallone Aviles, LLP, Islandia (Robert A. Lifson of counsel), for res — Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Shlomo S. Hagler, J.), entered May 12, 2016, which, inter alia, denied the motion of defendant 317 Aladdin Hotel Corp. (Aladdin) for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against it, and granted the motion of defendant NJB Security Services, Inc. (NJB) for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against it, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

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3131. ERMA MITCHELL, Plaintiff-res-ap, v. LONG ACRE HOTEL def, NJB SECURITY SERVICES, INC., def-res, CIRCUIT LLC Defendants-Appellants-res — Smith Mazure Director Wilkins Young & Yagerman, P.C., New York (Marcia K. Raicus of counsel), for appellants-res — Segal & Lax, New York (Patrick D. Gatti of counsel), for res-res — Lewis Johs Avallone Aviles, LLP, Islandia (Robert A. Lifson of counsel), for res — Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Shlomo S. Hagler, J.), entered May 12, 2016, which, inter alia, denied the motion of defendant 317 Aladdin Hotel Corp. (Aladdin) for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against it, and granted the motion of defendant NJB Security Services, Inc. (NJB) for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against it, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Aladdin failed to make out a prima facie showing that minimal security was provided at its building, a homeless shelter (see Stora v. City of New York, 117 AD3d 557 [1st Dept 2014]). Plaintiff testified that she complained about another resident’s alleged propensity for violence, and in the weeks before her assault, the other resident was involved in two other altercations (compare Pink v. Rome Youth Hockey Assn., Inc., 28 NY3d 994 [2016]). Moreover, Aladdin’s night manager observed the resident on the night in question in a drunk and belligerent state in the hallway. Thus, Aladdin failed to make an initial showing that it had no reason to know from past experience “that there [was] a likelihood of conduct on the part of third persons… which [was] likely to endanger the safety of the visitor” (Nallan v. Helmsley-Spear, Inc., 50 NY2d 507, 519 [1980] [internal quotation marks omitted]; see Kahane v. Marriott Hotel Corp., 249 AD2d 164 [1st Dept 1998]).

ERMA MITCHELL, Plaintiff-res-ap, v. LONG ACRE HOTEL def, NJB SECURITY SERVICES, INC., def-res, CIRCUIT LLC Defendants-Appellants-res

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