In re the City of New York

In these condemnation proceedings, claimants seek damages flowing from a street opening proceeding of one block of India Street, in the Borough of Brooklyn, extending from West Street to the East River. The proceedings were occasioned by the desire of the city to install a section of a large sewer conduit therein in connection with and as an integral part of the Newtown Creek Sewage Treatment Project for the elimination of the pollution of the rivers and waterways in. the metropolitan area.

In connection with the said taking, the city acquired a perpetual easement 50 feet wide by about 515…