Glickman v. City of New York

*221Plaintiff allegedly tripped and fell in a parking lot and onto an adjacent sidewalk as she prepared to enter her car. She claimed that she had tripped in a shallow depression, or a “dip,” which constituted a trap. Her expert concluded that the location of the dip, where a person leaving a busy parking area might be focused "more on traffic rather than looking at the ground, might have increased the hazard, especially if the dip was hard to see. Finding that the submitted evidence demonstrated that the defect, if any, was only trivial, the motion court dismissed the action. However, we find…