Matter of Monument Garage Corp. v. Levy

The Monument Garage Corporation is the lessor of a vacant plot of land approximately 200 feet in depth and abutting on both Fifty-ninth street and Fifty-eighth street in the borough of Manhattan. An application to the President of the borough for a permit to lower the curb for the purpose of providing a carriage way across the sidewalk of both streets was rejected. Alleging that the rejection was arbitrary and illegal, the applicant asked a mandamus order to compel the President of the borough to issue the permit. A final order has been granted after all disputed questions of fact have been…