Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff allegedly was injured when she tripped and fell on a defect in a sidewalk abutting a detached garage of a two-family residential property owned by the defendants.
Generally, liability for injuries sustained as a result of dangerous and defective conditions on public sidewalks is placed on the municipality, and not the abutting landowner (see Hausser v Giunta,
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