Legal Opinion
Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew v. Barwick
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 5, 1986PublishedCited by 181 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Hancock, Jr., J.
In this appeal in a declaratory judgment action we address a preliminary legal question: whether the claim that the Landmarks Law1 is unconstitutional as applied to plaintiff, the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew, is ripe for judicial determination. Plaintiffs church, the attached parish house and its separate parsonage are located at West End Avenue and 86th Street in Manhattan. Because of the long-continued disrepair of the church, the expense of maintaining and heating it, and its meager financial resources, plaintiff had developed a rebuilding program…
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