Goelet v. Moss

The petitioner herein desires to build four new buildings on property in his control on Park avenue between Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth streets. Three of the buildings are to *500be one-story structures for stores and shops fronting on Park avenue and on the side streets. The fourth building is to be used as a motion picture theatre having a seating capacity of about 600. This theatre is to be erected eighty feet from the Park avenue building line, will have its main entrance on Fifty-third street and will be accessible from Park avenue through a promenade twenty feet wide.

On April 22, 1936, the…