In re City of New York

Taylor, J. (concurring).

In relation to the claims to awards, of the appellant Gerritsen Basin Development Corporation, for real property taken within the confines of the so-called “ broken lands,” which claims are based upon that appellant’s contention that the Dutch grant of 1636 included such “ broken lands,” I am of opinion that the following additional considerations fortify the conclusion of my brother Close that such grant did not include those lands but did include only a “ flat ” on the mainland of Long Island. It did not include the marshy islands and land under water constituting…