Legal Opinion
Stuyvesant Housing Corp. v. Stuyvesant Town Corp.
New York Supreme Court
Decided August 31, 1944PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMcLaughlin, J.
This is a motion for summary judgment. The action is for an injunction restraining the maintaining of a condemnation proceeding to acquire property in an area on the “ East Side ”. It is a substandard area which the authorities intend to improve with a housing development. This condemnation is the result of a contract dated June 1,1943, between the City of New York, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and Stuyvesant Town Corporation made pursuant to the provisions of the Redevelopment Companies Law (L. 1943, ch. 234). It has previously been determined that this law is constitutional.…
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- Matter of Murray v. LaguardiaNew York Court of Appeals · 1943
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