In re City of New York

The award for parcels Yos. 1 and 2 in this proceeding involves an inconsistency which requires that the report be sent back to the commissioners for further consideration. These parcels comprised the larger part of the block bounded by Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, Tenth avenue and the Yorth river; and the whole block was in single ownership of the Estate of Bradish Johnson, a corporation, and leased to the Central Railroad of Yew Jersey for the purposes of a freight yard, at a net annual rent of $55,000 under a. lease, made in the year 1892, to endure for twenty-one years. The…