Created in the early 1980s in response to the Pothole Law, the corporation sent surveyors through NYC neighborhoods recording sidewalk and street defects, then served the resulting Big Apple Maps on the Department of Transportation. This gave injured pedestrians a ready source of written notice the City could not easily deny. Its practical role shrank after 2003, when § 7-210 moved most sidewalk liability to abutting owners who are not protected by notice requirements. The corporation and its maps still appear in litigation over falls where the City remains the proper defendant.
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