64th St. Residences, Inc. v. City of New York

Plaintiffs are owners and tenants of real property in the so-called “ Lincoln Square Project ” area on the west side of Manhattan running from 60th Street to 70th Street, bounded on the east and west by various streets and consisting altogether of 13 city blocks. Beginning in 1954, by appropriate actions of various of its public officers and bodies, the city, as authorized by section 1 of article XVIII of the State Constitution and section 72-k of the General Municipal Law (see Kaskel v. Impellitteri, 306 N. Y. 73, cert. denied 347 U. S. 934), found the Lincoln Square area to be “ substandard…