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Snyder v New York City Tr. Auth., 2003 NY Slip Op 19099 [2 AD3d 162]

December 4, 2003

Appellate Division, First Department

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert Lippmann, J.), entered September 10, 2002, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendant did not have a duty to warn plaintiff Perrin Snyder of the danger of leaning over the subway platform in such a manner as to place his body in the path of an oncoming train. Under the circumstances, plaintiff’s injury was attributable solely to his own reckless conduct ( see Gao Yi Feng v Metropolitan Transp. Auth. , 285 AD2d 447, 448 [2001]; Brown v Metropolitan Tr. Auth. , 281 AD2d 159, 160-161 [2001]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Andrias, Saxe and Ellerin, JJ.