Keystone Associates v. State

OPINION OF THE COURT

Frank S. Rossetti, J.

This claim is for damages arising from the temporary de facto appropriation of claimant’s interest in property located in midtown Manhattan in New York City. The taking was effectuated by an unconstitutional statute which unreasonably interfered with claimant’s use of the property by temporarily preventing the claimant lessee from demolishing a building thereon. Damages found in two prior trials were determined to be legally improper by the Court of Appeals and the case was remitted to this court on the issue of damages. (Keystone Assoc, v State of New…