Williams v Azeem
2009 NY Slip Op 04228 [62 AD3d 988]
May 26, 2009
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, July 1, 2009


Sharon Williams, Appellant,
v
Fazil Azeem et al.,Respondents.

[*1]Ginsberg & Broome, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Robert M. Ginsberg of counsel), forappellant.

Newman and Newman, LLP, Jamaica, N.Y. (Erwin B. Newman of counsel), forrespondents.

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals from an order ofthe Supreme Court, Queens County (Nelson, J.), dated April 29, 2008, which granted thedefendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiff's decedent allegedly tripped and fell over a raised water valve cap in a publicsidewalk abutting the defendants' premises. The defendants established their entitlement tojudgment as a matter of law by demonstrating that they did not negligently construct or repair thesidewalk, otherwise cause the defective condition, cause the defect to occur by some special useof the sidewalk, or breach a specific ordinance or statute which obligated the occupant tomaintain the sidewalk (see Hausser v Giunta, 88 NY2d 449, 452-453 [1996]; Biondi v County of Nassau, 49 AD3d580 [2008]; Jacobs v Village ofRockville Ctr., 41 AD3d 539 [2007]). In opposition, the plaintiff failed to raise a triableissue of fact as to whether, inter alia, the defendants made special use of the sidewalk (see Noia v Maselli, 45 AD3d 746[2007]).

The plaintiff's remaining contention is without merit. Mastro, J.P., Skelos, Dickerson andLott, JJ., concur.


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