Legal Opinion
LoCurto v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 18, 2003PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Betty Owen Stinson, J.), entered June 17, 2002, which, in an action for personal injuries sustained when plaintiff, after putting money in a parking meter, tripped and fell traversing a strip of grass and dirt between the curb and the paved sidewalk, granted defendant City of New York’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
We are in accord with the other Departments that a grassy area between a curb and a paved sidewalk is part of the sidewalk, as defined in Vehicle and Traffic Law § 144 (see Zizzo v City…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Hall v. City of SyracuseAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2000
- Castiglione v. Village of EllenvilleAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2002
- Zizzo v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1991
- Torres v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2003
- Cardona v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2003
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