Garcia-Menocal v. City of New York

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Diane Lebedeff, J.), entered April 10, 1989, which denied plaintiffs’ motion to amend their notice of claim, and granted defendant City of New York’s cross motion to dismiss the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

In this personal injury action involving a pedestrian’s sidewalk fall, the notice filed pursuant to General Municipal Law § 50-e admittedly described the accident site as in front of 225 Seventh Avenue, Manhattan, although the accident actually occurred at 362 Seventh Avenue, approximately seven blocks away. The…