Don’t slip up when it comes to seeking damages in a defective sidewalk accident The combination of harsh New York City winters and an infrastructure that continues to age means that there are miles and miles of poorly maintained and defective sidewalks in the Big Apple. Despite […]
Read more →New York City Sidewalk Lawyer New York City is made up of 12,750 miles of sidewalks. Many times people are injured due to the failure of a property owner to maintain its sidewalk in a reasonably safe condition. The New York City Department of Transportation’s (DOT) goal […]
Read more →New York City Trip and Fall Accidents Dangerous Sidewalks A raised or broken sidewalk poses a dangerous tripping hazard to pedestrians walking past. Likewise for a defect or pothole within a crosswalk creates. A trip and fall accident on a New York City sidewalk or crosswalk defect […]
Read more →Trip and Fall Section 7-201(c)(2) of the New York City Administrative Code, known as the “Pothole Law”, states that no civil action can be maintained against New York City for personal injury sustained as a result of a street (or sidewalk) being out of repair, unsafe, dangerous […]
Read more →Trip and Fall on a New York City Sidewalk Trip and Fall Every day people are injured or hurt in a trip and fall accident because of a broken or defective sidewalk in New York City. We have previously discussed the legal obligations of owner of commercial […]
Read more →NYC – Abutting Owner’s Duty to Maintain Public Sidewalk Duty to Maintain Public Sidewalk As we have discussed before, in New York City, the owner of a premises has a duty to keep the sidewalks abutting the premises in a reasonably safe condition as mandated by the […]
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