Princess Video, Inc. v. City of New York

—In an action to re*301cover damages for negligence, the plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Hutcherson, J.), dated March 1, 1999, which granted the defendants’ separate motions to dismiss the complaint insofar as asserted against each of them.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

In 1994 the defendant New York City Transit Authority began the construction of an elevator between the street and the underground subway platform on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. As a consequence of that work, the public sidewalk adjacent to the plaintiffs’ premises was closed in…