Watkins v. Ughetta

In the course of widening Van Wyck Expressway in the borough of Queens, forty-eight one and two-family houses are required to be removed. Under the authority of sections 381 and 384 of the New York City Charter and section 384-15.0 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York, the city proposes to condemn land, of which petitioners’ property is a part, located some distance from the Expressway, and to relocate the forty-eight houses thereon. This is an application by petitioners to this court for an order in the nature of prohibition, restraining the Justice assigned to the condemnation…