Citineighbors Coalition of Historic Carnegie Hill v. New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Leland DeGrasse, J.), entered January 17, 2003, which denied the petition and dismissed the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 to annul a “certificate of appropriateness” (COA) issued by respondent New York City Landmarks Pres*114ervation Commission (LPC) with regard to proposed plans for the construction of a new building, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Since the issuance of the COA was rationally based (see CPLR 7803 [3]), the “judgment * * * of the Commission’s historians and architects” must be sustained (see Matter of Society for…