Yonkers Gardens Co. v. State

Appeals from judgments in favor of claimants, entered March 18, 1974 and March 20, 1974, upon decisions of the Court of Claims. These two claims were tried jointly and, since the issues in each case parallel one another, our determination in one will be dispositive of the other. The two subject properties, adjacent to each other, are improved by two seven-story, eight-year-old garden apartment houses, and each possesses approximately 220 feet of frontage along the west side of Central Park Avenue in the City of Yonkers. For the purpose of widening Central Park Avenue, the State appropriated a…