Plaintiff allegedly tripped upon a lock affixed to a sidewalk cellar door. The photographic evidence, however, indicates that the door is equipped with only one set of hasps for attaching a lock and that those hasps are situated inches from the building line, and the placement of a lock at that location would not have been actionable (see Kempe v Concourse Realty Corp., 237 App Div 708 [1933]). Although plaintiff eventually testified that the cellar doors were at the...
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