Defendant property owners failed to establish, as a matter of law, that they had no duty to maintain the electrical shunts that defendant Con Edison placed across the sidewalk in front of their property to provide emergency power for the tenants residing there. We have generally held that an issue of fact exists whether such equipment constitutes a special use of the sidewalk that creates a duty of care on the part of the property owner (see e.g. Cook v Consolidated Edison...
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