Jane Street Seafood Cafe Corp. v. New York State Liquor Authority

OPINION OF THE COURT

Richard W. Wallach, J.

The State Liquor Authority has denied a restaurant liquor license to petitioner, the Jane Street Seafood Cafe Corp., on the ground that the cafe’s entrance is 85 feet from "a building *403occupied exclusively as * * * church * * * or other place of worship” (Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, § 64-a).

In this CPLR article 78 proceeding the cafe, which has been the subject of favorable critical reception by the gourmet sector of journalism, seeks a reversal of that determination. The building which purportedly offends the well-known 200-foot cordon sanitaire…