Angelique Sabia-Candero (Associate-New York, NY) and Joseph Laird (Partner-White Plains, NY) secured summary judgment in the Supreme Court, Kings County Court on behalf of their housing company client in a trip and fall case. The plaintiff alleged she was injured when she stepped into the storm drain inlet affixed to the curb adjacent to the client's residential building. Angelique and Joe argued that the client is an improper party and entitled to summary judgment because it was not responsible for the public street or public storm system, which are exclusively maintained by the City of New York and the Department of Environmental Protection. In opposition, the plaintiff argued that Google Maps and Cyclomedia images demonstrated the client’s long history of using the curb area in connection with its landscaping work and suggested that its heavy equipment may have created the overturned curb inlet at issue. Angelique and Joe countered that three of the four images submitted by the plaintiff predated the client’s acquisition of the adjacent property by seven years, undermining the plaintiff’s claim that Wilson Elser’s client caused the condition. The court agreed and granted summary judgment, dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint and all cross-claims asserted against the housing company.