Matter of 440 E. 102nd St. Corp. v. Murdock

On and prior to March 13, 1935, the petitioner-appellant owned property facing about 218 feet on East One Hundred and Second street in the borough of Manhattan and bounded on the east by the Harlem river. Four buildings were located generally on the outside boundaries of the plot and on the interior, between the buildings, was an open space. The property was used for more than thirty years for stabling horses, at times as many as seventy-five, and for a junk and stable yard. On March 13, 1935, title to the easterly portion of the property, on which two of the buildings and a small portion of…