Friedman v. City of New York

Memorandum. The plaintiff, a 72-year-old woman, was injured when she attempted to step across a hole in the sidewalk on the inside of the curb edge at a crosswalk. The hole, about a foot and a half wide and three or four inches deep, was the *765result of defendant’s work in repaving a seven-block area in Brooklyn and the defendant had failed to place any warning signs around the hole and had failed to place any covering over the hole. The injury occurred when the plaintiff was returning from shopping and attempted to find a portion of the sidewalk which was unbroken and which would permit her to…