Buro v. State

The claimants are property owners along Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. Between 1941 and 1943 the State undertook to eliminate grade crossings of the Long Island Bail Boad in Atlantic Avenue and to make other changes in physical conditions in this street.

Before these changes were made by the State the railroad had been maintained on its own right of way in an open cut in the middle of the street in front of the parcels of one group of claimants. The tracks were below the street level and on each side of the cut at street level was a fence four and one-half feet above the ground. On each side…