Mary Chess, Inc. v. City of Glen Cove

Plaintiffs Chess, Ralsan, Baymore and Nylacore* are owners of all the land on the perimeter of Pratt Oval, while plaintiffs Cateo and Rorech own all but one acre of the land in the interior. The tract, originally used as a service area by the Pratt family, consists of an oval-shaped dirt road enclosing four acres of undeveloped land and surrounded by five buildings of heavy mill construction, each of which face inward. The tract was unzoned until 1926, then zoned residential until 1942. However it had been used for industrial purposes since 1915 and these uses continued.

In 1942, when Charles…