While icy sidewalks might be the last thing on many building managers’
minds lately, the Skyline Condominium, at 551 Observer Highway in
Hoboken, just got some good news about its own often-icy environs. The
CM3 Management Company — along with the city of Hoboken and the
Skyline Condominium Association — had been sued by an injured
pedestrian for failing to plow its frozen over walkway in Winter 2006,
according to Hoboken 411. But a court ruled in favor of the defendants
this week, saying that the “landowners who shoveled snow from sidewalk
were not liable to a pedestrian who fell on ice created after snow had
melted, collected in a depression in the sidewalk, and then froze,”
because they had not “in clearing the sidewalk … increase[d] the
natural hazard by introducing some new element of danger.” Click here to see a slideshow of Hoboken’s treacherous chilly season.