Case Name: Hassie Feliciano, Respondent, v. City of New York, Defendant, and 104th St. Realty, LLC, et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2003-04-17
Citations: 304 A.D.2d 416
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hassie Feliciano, Respondent, v City of New York, Defendant, and 104th St. Realty, LLC, et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 304
Pages: 416–417

Head Matter:
Hassie Feliciano, Respondent, v City of New York, Defendant, and 104th St. Realty, LLC, et al., Appellants.
[757 NYS2d 430]

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert Lippmann, J.), entered February 28, 2002, which, insofar as appealed from, denied defendants-appellants' cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff's expert asserted that improper patching of a hole in the public sidewalk abutting defendants-appellants' premises was the proximate cause of the injuries sustained by plaintiff. Defendants-appellants' manager's deposition testimony concerning sidewalk repair procedures raises an issue of fact concerning whether defendants-appellants performed the alleged defective patchwork, and are thus subject to liability (see Hausser v Giunta, 88 NY2d 449, 452-453 [1996]). Accordingly, defendants-appellants' cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint against them was properly denied. Concur — Mazzarelli, J.P., Andrias, Friedman, Marlow and Gonzalez, JJ.