Deringer v. Rossi

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert Lippmann, J.), entered on or about November 17, 1998, to the extent that it granted defendant City’s motion for summary judgment, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the motion denied, and the complaints reinstated as against said defendant.

Plaintiffs were injured in October 1987 when the right front *306wheel of their car hit a low-rising traffic island at the intersection of West and West Houston Streets in Manhattan, and spun out of control. Trapezoidal in shape, its point facing the oncoming flow of southbound traffic on West Street,…