Case Name: Cara Campisi, Plaintiff, v. Bronx Water & Sewer Service, Inc., et al., Appellants, and City of New York, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2003-11-13
Citations: 1 A.D.3d 166
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cara Campisi, Plaintiff, v Bronx Water & Sewer Service, Inc., et al., Appellants, and City of New York, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 166–167

Head Matter:
Cara Campisi, Plaintiff, v Bronx Water & Sewer Service, Inc., et al., Appellants, and City of New York, Respondent.
[ 766 NYS2d 560]

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael Stallman, J.), entered April 9, 2003, which, inter alia, granted the motion of the City of New York (City) for summary judgment dismissing the cross claims asserted against it, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
In this pothole-related accident case, the court properly granted the City's motion for summary judgment dismissing the cross claims against it. Pursuant to Administrative Code of the City of New York § 7-201 (c) (2), prior written notice is a condition precedent to maintaining an action against the City arising from a street defect. The City properly established, through an affidavit from an appropriate official, that a search of the Department of Transportation's records was conducted and that there was no prior written notice of the defective condition (see Cruz v City of New York, 218 AD2d 546, 547 [1995]).
There is no evidence that the City created the defective condition. Accordingly, that exception to the requirement of prior written notice does not apply. Neither actual nor constructive notice of the defect may substitute for prior written notice (Amabile v City of Buffalo, 93 NY2d 471, 474 [1999]; see also Cenname v Town of Smithtown, 303 AD2d 351 [2003]).
We have considered appellants' remaining contentions and find them unavailing. Concur—Tom, J.P., Saxe, Rosenberger, Williams and Gonzalez, JJ.