Torres v. City of New York

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Luis Gonzales, J.), entered August 7, 1998, awarding plaintiff, after a jury trial, damages in the total amount of $420,000, plus interest, costs and disbursements, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff testified that, as he was riding his bicycle over a *307recreational ramp in defendant City’s park, he lost control of the bicycle when the bicycle’s front wheel became caught in a gap between the flat surface on top of the ramp and one of the ramp’s inclines. The photographs received into evidence establish that the gap would not have been apparent…