Green v. City of New York

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alexander Hunter, J.), entered May 2, 2002, which, *409upon a jury verdict, inter alia, awarded plaintiff damages, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff, an elementary school teacher, was seriously injured during school hours while playing basketball in a school cafeteria in which basketball hoops had been installed. As he jumped to shoot the basketball with which he and some students were playing, plaintiff slipped upon the cafeteria’s vinyl tile flooring causing him to lose his balance, trip over a student and land hard on his left knee.

Contrary…