In re City of New York

In our original decision of this appeal we decided in substance that as Hannah street went to the water’s edge on January 1, 1898, when the Greater New York charter took effect, the city had an easement" for street purposes in the lands under water between the lines of that street as extended out to the pierhead fine. • (215 App. Div. 204.) Upon the settlement of the order, however, respondents’ counsel points out that that portion of the street extending from Bay street out into the water and to the railroad trestle had been closed in 1912 by a resolution of the board of estimate and…