Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The purpose of a timely served notice of claim pursuant to General Municipal Law § 50-e is to advise a municipal defendant of a possible lawsuit and to give it an opportunity to investigate the alleged cause of the accident before the scene of the accident changes or memories of witnesses fade (see, Caselli v City of New York,
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