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MATTER OF GLICK v. HARVEY

No. 107.

25 N.Y.3d 1175 (2015)

36 N.E.3d 640

15 N.Y.S.3d 733

2015 NY Slip Op 05593

In the Matter of DEBORAH GLICK et al., Appellants, v. ROSE HARVEY, as Acting Commissioner of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, et al., Respondents. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, Third-Party Respondent.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided June 30, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York City ( Caitlin J. Halligan , Randy M. Mastro , Indraneel Sur , Gabriel K. Gillett , Sarah Vacchiano and Laura F. Corbin of counsel), for appellants.

Zachary W. Carter , Corporation Counsel, New York City ( Michael J. Pastor , Richard Dearing , Chris Reo and Elizabeth Harris of counsel), for respondents.

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C. ( Seth P. Waxman , of the District of Columbia bar, admitted pro hac vice, Kelly P. Dunbar , Albinas J. Prizgintas , of the District of Columbia bar, admitted pro hac vice, and Adam I. Klein of counsel), Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York City ( Alan E. Schoenfeld of counsel), Bryan Cave LLP, New York City ( Philip E. Karmel of counsel), and Cooley LLP, New York City ( Alan Levine , Celia Goldwag Barenholtz and Michael Blasie of counsel), for third-party respondent.

Lawrence B. Goldberg, P.C., New York City ( Lawrence B. Goldberg of counsel), for Friends of LaGuardia Place, Inc. and others, amici curiae.

Albert K. Butzel Law Offices, New York City ( Albert K. Butzel of counsel), for Michael C. Blumm and others, amici curiae.

Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP, New York City ( Richard J. Holwell , Daniel M. Sullivan and Andrew B. Breidenbach of counsel), for New York Civic, amicus curiae.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York City ( Gregory Silbert and Adam B. Banks of counsel), for New York State Legislators, amici curiae.

Proskauer Rose LLP, New York City ( Charles S. Sims and Celia V. Cohen of counsel), for New Yorkers for Parks and others, amici curiae.

Wade Beltramo , General Counsel, New York State Conference of Mayors and Municipal Officials, Albany, and The Association of Towns of the State of New York, Albany ( Sarah Brancatella of counsel), for New York State Conference of Mayors and Municipal Officials and others, amici curiae.

Derohannesian & Derohannesian, Albany ( Paul Derohannesian II of counsel), for Sierra Club, amicus curiae.

Order affirmed, with costs, in a memorandum.

OPINION OF THE COURT

MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

The issue before us is whether four parcels of municipal land in the Greenwich Village area of New York City near the campus of New York University (NYU) were impliedly dedicated as public parkland and therefore fall under the protection of the public trust doctrine, which requires approval of the state legislature before the land can be alienated...

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