Upper East Side Community Development Corp. v. City of New York Division of Real Property

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward H. Lehner, J.), entered November 8, 1989, which dismissed the CPLR article 78 proceeding seeking to annul the determination of respondent denying petitioners’ applications for the discretionary release of the city’s interest in certain parcels of real property which the city acquired pursuant to an in rem tax foreclosure judgment, unanimously affirmed to the extent appealed from, without costs.

On account of tax delinquency, the respondent city foreclosed on eight parcels of real property owned by petitioners for delinquent taxes. Petitioners…