Matter of City of New York (165th Street)

Puntine street, otherwise known as One Hundred and Sixty-fifth street, as laid out on the map or plan of the city of New York for a distance approximately one hundred and twenty-five feet south of the northerly line of Jamaica avenue in the borough of Queens, was a highway of varying width. In order to correct this irregularity, the city altered the existing map and adopted a new one, by which the width of Puntine street became substantially uniform, and instituted a condemnation proceeding to acquire title to the land lying between the old easterly line and the proposed new easterly line of…