MTR. OF CITY OF N. Y. (MAXWELL)


15 A.D.2d 153 (1961)

In the Matter of The City of New York, Appellant-Respondent, Relative to Acquiring Title to Real Property Required for Lincoln Square Slum Clearance Project Within the Area Bounded by West 60th Street and Other Streets in the Borough of Manhattan. John F. Maxwell et al., Appellants; Charles W. Hand et al., Respondents; 167 West 60th Street, Inc., et al., Respondents-Appellants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

December 21, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving Genn of counsel (Seymour B. Quel with him on the brief; Leo A. Larkin, Corporation Counsel, attorney), for appellant City of New York on residential parcels.

Milton H. Harris and Irving Genn of counsel (Seymour B. Quel on the brief; Leo A. Larkin, Corporation Counsel, attorney), for appellant City of New York on commercial parcels.

Bernard L. Bermant of counsel (Carl J. Moskowitz with him on the brief; Skinner & Bermant, Leddy & Raber, attorneys), for claimants-appellants on Damage Parcels 1, 27, 39, 42, 194, 211, 226, 227, 263, 264, 329, 382, 412, 454, 455, 456, 477.

Anthony Curreri of counsel (Eugene J. Schwartz, attorney), for claimants-appellants on Damage Parcels 5 and 129.

Nathan L. Goldstein of counsel (Robert J. Randell with him on the brief; Nathan L. and Joseph Z. Goldstein, attorneys), for claimants-appellants on Damage Parcels 11, 112, 307, 438, 439, 440, 525.

Samuel Goldstein of counsel (M. Robert Goldstein and Arthur D. Goldstein with him on the brief; Samuel Goldstein & Sons, attorneys), for claimants-appellants on Damage Parcels 21, 22, 23, 66, 67, 85, 86, 87, 88, 167, 168, 232, 272, 273, 285, 363, 419, 427, 463, 488, 489, 490, 491.

Irving M. Rosen of counsel (Alfred D. Jahr with him on the brief), for claimants-appellants on Damage Parcels 457, 458, 459, 460, 461.

Sidney Z. Searles of counsel (Sidney O. Raphael with him on the brief; Raphael, Searles & Vischi, attorneys), for claimants-appellants on Damage Parcels 68, 69, 72, 149, 523.

Harris L. Present of counsel (Arthur J. Galligan with him on the brief), for claimant-appellant on Damage Parcel 193.

Charles Lamb of counsel (Lamb and Lamb, attorneys), for claimants-appellants on Damage Parcels 110, 322, 381, 391, 442, 464, 496, 514.

Alfred D. Jahr for claimants-appellants on Damage Parcels 28, 29, 30, 277, 279, 280, 281, 293, 424.

Morris Klausner for claimant-appellant on Damage Parcel 363.

Eugene J. Morris of counsel (A. Carleton Dukess with him on the brief; Demov & Morris and Lazarus Joseph, attorneys), for claimants-appellants on Damage Parcels 323, 359, 387, 388, 389, 390.

F. W. H. Adams of counsel (Satterlee, Warfield & Stephens, attorneys), for claimants-respondents on Damage Parcel 431.

Malcolm B. Kahn for claimants-respondents on Damage Parcels 106, 107 and 109.

Philip A. Paulson for claimants-appellants on Damage Parcels 516, 517.

Monroe Goldwater of counsel (Leon Liner with him on the brief; Goldwater & Flynn, attorneys), for claimant-respondent on Damage Parcel 267.

John P. McGrath of counsel (Jeremiah H. Evarts, Frederick R. Adler and Jacob W. Heller with him on the brief; Hodges, Reavis, McGrath & Downey, attorneys), for claimant-respondent on Damage Parcel 462.

Herman G. Blumenthal for claimant-respondent on Damage Parcel 176.

Leo Klauber for claimants-respondents on Damage Parcels 519, 520.

Mortimer Jay Goodstein for claimants-respondents on Damage Parcel 518.

Michael C. Gray for claimant-respondent on Damage Parcels 478, 479, 487.

Bernard L. Bermant of counsel (Skinner & Bermant, Leddy & Raber, attorneys), for claimants-appellants, John Frederick Maxwell (D. P. 8), and others, and claimants-respondents-appellants, 167 West 60th Street, (D. P. 1), National Transportation Co., Inc. (D. P. 477), and others, on review of order denying motion concerning statutory interest.

Milton H. Harris of counsel (Seymour B. Quel with him on the brief; Leo A. Larkin, Corporation Counsel), for the City of New York on review of order denying motion concerning statutory interest.

BOTEIN, P. J., BREITEL, RABIN, VALENTE and STEUER, JJ., concur.


STEUER, J.

By this proceeding the City of New York has condemned all the property consisting of 13 square blocks of somewhat irregular shape but roughly between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues and 60th and 70th Streets. Over 400 parcels are involved. The court entered several decrees from time to time as expediency and proper practice dictated. These appeals are from portions of the Fifth and Sixth Decrees and...

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