City of New York v. Shakespeare

1 — Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Salvador Collazo, J.), entered July 19, 1993, which granted plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment and denied defendant’s cross motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission did not exceed its power when it ordered defendants to remove a sculpture from the parcel located in the Greenwich Village Historic District as the Landmarks Preservation Law applies to an unimproved free-standing plot which is not part of a larger tax parcel but "is treated as a single entity for such tax purposes.”…