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DEFENDANT DID NOT DEMONSTRATE IT WAS NOT RESPONSIBLE, PURSUANT TO THE TOWN CODE, FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE AREA OF THE SIDEWALK WHERE PLAINTIFF TRIPPED OVER A PROTRUDING BOLT; DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing (modifying) Supreme Court, determined the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), which had a station in the vicinity of where plaintiff tripped over a bolt protruding from the sidewalk, was not entitled to summary judgment in this slip and fall case. A town ordinance required abutting property owners to maintain the sidewalk and the MTA did not demonstrate the protruding bolt was not in an area of the sidewalk for which it was responsible:

… [T]he MTA defendants failed to affirmatively demonstrate that they were not tenants or occupants of a lot or building abutting the subject sidewalk or that, for any other reason, section 191-16(A) of the Town Code did not apply to them. Among other things, the evidence they submitted did not clearly show the location of the sidewalk in relation to the station house and train platform, or clearly establish the Town’s and the MTA defendants’ relative use of, and duties with respect to, the portions of the property at issue. Accordingly, the Supreme Court should have denied that branch of the MTA defendants’ motion which was for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against them, without regard to the sufficiency of the opposition papers … . Sanon v MTA Long Is. R.R., 2022 NY Slip Op 01337, Second Dept 3-2-22

 

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