Plaintiff allegedly sustained injuries when she attempted to descend a darkened interior staircase in defendants’ building during a blackout. In view of triable issues as to whether defendants took appropriate measures to maintain the building’s emergency stairwell lighting, summary judgment was properly denied (see Goldstein v Consolidated Edison Co. of N.Y., 115 AD2d 34, 40 [1986], lv denied 68 NY2d 604 [1986]). Contrary to defendant owner’s argument its obligation to light the staircase at issue is not governed by Multiple Dwelling Law § 37 (2), but by Multiple Dwelling Law § 37 (3), which does not relieve an owner of responsibility for lights extinguished without its knowledge or consent, but rather commands categorically that every light in a windowless fire-stair “shall be kept burning continuously.”
We have reviewed defendants’ remaining arguments and find them unavailing. Concur—Tom, J.P, Williams and Gonzalez, JJ.