GREEN v. CITY OF NEW YORK


308 A.D.2d 408 (2003)

764 N.Y.S.2d 690

DEREK GREEN, Respondent, v. CITY OF NEW YORK et al., Appellants.

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

Decided September 30, 2003.


Plaintiff, an elementary school teacher, was seriously injured during school hours while playing basketball in a school cafeteria in which basketball hoops had been installed. As he jumped to shoot the basketball with which he and some students were playing, plaintiff slipped upon the cafeteria's vinyl tile flooring causing him to lose his balance, trip over a student and land hard on his left knee.

Contrary to defendants' argument, plaintiff's notice of claim, stating...

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