MTR GERGES v. KOCH


101 A.D.2d 201 (1984)

In the Matter of Abraham G. Gerges et al., Appellants-Respondents, v. Edward Koch et al., Respondents-Appellants

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

May 1, 1984


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis, Greenwald & Kennedy, P. C., and Abraham G. Gerges, appellant-respondent pro se (Thomas M. Kennedy and Ira Cure of counsel), for appellants-respondents. (One brief filed.)

Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr., Corporation Counsel (Leonard Koerner, Jeffrey Friedlander and Stephen P. Kramer of counsel), for respondents-appellants.

TITONE, J. P., GIBBONS, BRACKEN and BROWN, JJ., concur.


Per Curiam.

Petitioners challenge the proposed conversion of the "brig", located at 136 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, across from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, into a medium security prison facility. This conversion is a crucial component of the City of New York's short-term emergency construction program to expand its jail capacity by 1,400 beds by the end of 1984. Despite the city's recent expansion of its jail capacity...

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