Suffolk Family Equity Inc. v. County of Nassau

—In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for an illegal real property tax assessment, the plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (McGinity, J.), dated October 12, 1994, which granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ complaint as time-barred.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

Under the facts of this case, the Supreme Court properly dismissed the plaintiffs’ complaint as time-barred. The essence of the plaintiffs’ claims are challenges to the denial, by the County of Nassau, of a real property tax exemption pursuant to RPTL 420-a,…