City of New York v. State

This claim is one of several similar appropriations potentially involving millions of dollars for the City of New York. Filed seven years ago, their history painfully illustrates that the condemnee’s quest for just compensation may be as illusive as Don Quixote’s dreams. The within claim actually had its inception in 1963 when the mechanics for the taking and reimbursement were put into motion.

During these years, counsel have been inexorably locked in litigious sparring contests. Intransigence, rather than a realistic assessment of the legal problems has characterized, at least in this…