Bielecki v. City of New York

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Werner Kornreich, J.), entered March 25, 2003, which, pursuant to the court’s grant of defendant’s posttrial motion to set aside the jury’s verdict, dismissed the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff fell and injured himself when he stepped into an ankle-deep hole in a pedestrian pathway in Central Park. There is no evidence that defendant (the City) received prior written notice of the defect in the pathway, as required under the Pothole Law (Administrative Code of City of NY § 7-201 [c] [2]) to render the City liable for…