Case Name: Filip Di Sanza, Appellant, v. City of New York et al., Defendants, and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2008-09-11
Citations: 11 N.Y.3d 766
Docket Number: 
Parties: Filip Di Sanza, Appellant, v City of New York et al., Defendants, and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 11
Pages: 766–767

Head Matter:
[896 NE2d 661, 867 NYS2d 26]
Filip Di Sanza, Appellant, v City of New York et al., Defendants, and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Respondent.
Decided September 11, 2008
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Susan R. Nudelman, Dix Hills, for appellant.
Richard W. Babinecz, New York City, and Helman R. Brook for respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed with costs. We agree with the majority at the Appellate Division that, under the particular circumstances of this case, defendant Consolidated Edison Company of New York's evidentiary submissions were sufficient to establish its prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law on the ground that it neither created nor had actual or constructive notice of the one-inch bulge in the sidewalk grating. We further conclude that plaintiffs introduction of the postaccident photographs, which were not probative of the duration of the bulge, and the conclusory affidavit from his expert were insufficient to raise a triable issue of fact (see Batton v Elghanayan, 43 NY2d 898, 900 [1978] [photographs are not always sufficient to prove constructive notice]; see also Diaz v New York Downtown Hosp., 99 NY2d 542, 544-545 [2002]; Romano v Stanley, 90 NY2d 444, 451-452 [1997] [conclusory expert affidavit, devoid of evidentiary foundation, insufficient to defeat summary judgment]).
Chief Judge Kaye and Judges Ciparick, Graffeo, Read, Smith, Pigott and Jones concur.
On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.11 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals (22 NYCRR 500.11), order affirmed, with costs, in a memorandum.