CHINESE STAFF v. CITY OF NY


68 N.Y.2d 359 (1986)

Chinese Staff and Workers Association et al., Appellants, v. City of New York et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided November 18, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell S. Bernard and Margaret Fung for appellants.

Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr., Corporation Counsel (Pamela Seider Dolgow and Fay Leoussis of counsel), for respondents.

Kenneth Kimerling for The Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, Inc., and others, amici curiae.

Judges MEYER, SIMONS, KAYE and TITONE concur with Judge ALEXANDER; Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judge HANCOCK, JR., concur in part and dissent in part and vote to grant the petition conditionally in a memorandum.


ALEXANDER, J.

The regulations promulgated by the City of New York (Executive Order No. 91, Aug. 24, 1977, entitled City Environmental Quality Review [CEQR]) as authorized by and in implementation of the State Environmental Quality Review Act (ECL art 8 [SEQRA]) require lead agencies to consider both the short- and long-term and primary and secondary effects of a proposed action in determining whether the action...

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