In re City of New York

The city of New York acquired the fee, in trust for street purposes, of a twenty-foot strip of land, running from East Thirty-second street to East Thirty-third street, borough of Manhattan, being the land taken at such location in widening Fourth avenue to the extent of twenty feet. Title vested in the city July 16, 1924.

Originally the board of estimate and apportionment adopted a resolution that no portion of the cost and expense of the acquisition of title should be borne by the city of New York, all of the same to be assessed upon property benefited. Subsequently this was changed, the…