Kemp v. Rubin

In 1939 eighteen owners of real property on 177th Street between 112th and 114th Avenue, in the Addisleigh section of St. Albans, Queens County, executed a restrictive covenant' reciting ‘ ‘ that no part of the land now owned by the parties hereto * * * shall ever be used or occupied, or sold, conveyed, leased, rented or given, to Negroes or any person or persons of the Negro race or blood or descent ”. The agreement also provides that the covenant is to run with the land and is to bind the parties, their heirs, successors and assigns until December 31,1975. Plaintiffs, who are two of the…