Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
Where, as here, a plaintiff seeks to recover against a landlord under a theory of strict liability for a dog bite, the plaintiff must prove that the landlord had notice that a dog was being harbored on the premises, and that the landlord knew or should have known that the dog had vicious propensities (see, Finney v Fraioli,
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