COALITION AGAINST COLUMBUS CENTER v. NEW YORK

Nos. 564, 577 and 701, Dockets 91-7746, 91-7754 and 91-7846.

967 F.2d 764 (1992)

COALITION AGAINST COLUMBUS CENTER; Selma Arnold; Ross Graham; Al Hehn; Columbus Center Travel, Ltd.; Coalition Against Lincoln West, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, v. CITY OF NEW YORK; the Board of Estimate of the City of New York; Department of Housing Preservation & Development of New York City; Metropolitan Transportation Agency; Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority; the New York City Industrial Development Agency; Coliseum Associates, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 22, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda H. Young, New York City (Victor A. Kovner, Corp. Counsel, Antonia Levine, Daniel Turbow, Ellen B. Fishman, Jerome Tarnoff, Theodore S. Steingut, Berger Steingut Tarnoff & Stern, on the brief), for Mun. defendants-appellants-cross-appellees.

Robert P. LoBue, New York City (Stephen P. Younger, David C. McIntyre, Steven Russo, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, on the brief), for defendants-appellants-cross-appellees Metropolitan Transp. Authority and Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority.

Gaines Gwathmey III, Jay Cohen, Robert A. Atkins, Joseph Brennan, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City (Paul Selver, Elise Wagner, Brown & Wood, submitted a brief), for defendant-appellant-cross-appellee Coliseum Associates.

John T. Van Der Tuin, New York City (Stuits, Balber, Horton & Slotnik, Jerry H. Goldfeder, Pesetsky, Goldfeder & Bookman, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellees-cross-appellants.

Before: NEWMAN, KEARSE, and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges.


JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves an attempt by various citizen groups, individual neighbors, and local businesses to block the sale and redevelopment of a 3.4-acre site on the western side of Manhattan's Columbus Circle for alleged noncompliance with applicable environmental and regulatory requirements. The site is currently occupied by the New York City Coliseum and an adjacent 26-story office building. Defendants are the developer of the site,...

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