CLAYPOOL v. CITY OF NEW YORK


267 A.D.2d 33 (1999)

699 N.Y.S.2d 363

KATHLEEN M. CLAYPOOL et al., as Coexecutors of JOYCE LICHT, Deceased, Appellants-Respondents, v. CITY OF NEW YORK, Respondent-Appellant, and FLORENCE AARON et al., as Coexecutors of SOLOMON AARON, Deceased, et al., Respondents, et al., Defendant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided December 7, 1999.


Plaintiffs' decedent, Joyce Licht, sustained injury on or about June 19, 1990 when her shoe became caught in a narrow depression between metal cellar doors and the edge of a ventilator cover, causing her to fall. These obstructions were set into the sidewalk in front of a building located at 679 Madison Avenue. The premises were owned by defendants Solomon Aaron (now deceased) and Freda Aaron and were operated as a liquor store business by defendant Sherry Lehman, Inc., the...

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