In re the City of New York

In these cross appeals from a final decree, Supreme Court, New York County, entered on June 11, 1971, such decree is unanimously affirmed, without costs and without disbursements. Chiefly at issue here is the award of severance damages with respect to property remaining in the hands of claimant after award of direct damages for Damage Parcel 1-2. In late 1967 claimant, a builder, commenced the assemblage of various parcels of land with a view to ultimately erecting upon such land a 16-story nursing home. After claimant acquired several parcels, upon some of which demolition occurred, but…