Bates v. Holbrook

The plaintiff is the lessee of a hotel on the northerly side of Union square in the city of Hew York. His lease expires in 1906. His premises have a frontage of 121 feet on Union square and 168 feet on Fourth avenue. The building is five stories in height, and contains some two hundred rooms, several restaurants, a café and bar. The park known as Union Square, as designated by law, extends to the northerly limit of the prolongation of the thoroughfare which, to the westward of Broadway and the eastward of Fourth avenue, is known as Seventeenth street. Laws 1832, chap. 89. So much of the Union…