STAND TOGETHER AGAINST NGBHD. DECAY v. B. OF EST.

No. CV 87-2707.

690 F.Supp. 1192 (1988)

STAND TOGETHER AGAINST NEIGHBORHOOD DECAY, INC., Donna Henes, Robert Hoffman, Robert Popham, William Price, Sarah Jenkins, Ryan Hilliard, and Arnold Fay, Plaintiffs, v. BOARD OF ESTIMATE OF the CITY OF NEW YORK, Edward I. Koch, as Mayor of the City of New York and Chairman of the Board of Estimate, Harrison J. Goldin, Andrew J. Stein, David N. Dinkins, Fernando Ferrer, Howard Golden, Claire Shulman and Ralph J. Lamberti, as Members of the Board of Estimate, New York City Planning Commission, Department of City Planning of the City of New York, Sylvia Deutsch, as Commissioner of the City Planning Commission and Director of the Department of City Planning, Department of Environmental Protection of the City of New York, Harvey W. Schultz, as Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, New York City Public Development Corp., James P. Stuckey, as President of the Public Development Corp., Department of Housing Preservation & Development of the City of New York, Paul A. Crotty, as Commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Thomas C. Jorling, as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Lee M. Thomas, as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Forest City Metrotech Associates, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

July 8, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Gerrard, Berle, Kass & Case, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Eric Bregman, Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C., New York City, for defendant Forest City Metrotech Associates.

Susan Shapiro, Asst. Corp. Counsel, for defendant New York City Bd. of Estimate and other municipal defendants.

Helene Goldberger, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant Thomas C. Jorling.

Robin Greenwald, Asst. U.S. Atty., for defendants U.S. E.P.A. and Lee M. Thomas.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

DEARIE, District Judge.

When the parties to this lawsuit look at the ten-block area osculatory to the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse's southeast corner, they see different sights and imagine different visions. The principal group of defendants sees a run-down, blighted vicinage that ought to be replaced by a gleaming alabaster city of offices, shops and apartments. In plaintiffs' eyes, defendants...

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