Legal Opinion · Dissent
Cannata v. City of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Decided April 26, 1962Published
1Dissent
Van Voorhis, J. (dissenting).
The appeal is from a declaratory judgment upholding the constitutionality of former section 72-n of the General Municipal Law. Pursuant to this section, which is now repealed and has been re-enacted in modified form in article 15 of the General Municipal Law, the City of New York proposes to condemn about 95 acres in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn to be resold to private developers — who are as yet unidentified and uncommitted—for a project to be known as ” Flatlands Urban Industrial Park”, which, in the opinion of the Board of Estimate and the City Planning…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Berman v. ParkerSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- People v. GroganNew York Court of Appeals · 1932
- United States v. WunderlichSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- Kaskel v. ImpellitteriNew York Court of Appeals · 1953
- Matter of N.Y. City H. Authority v. MullerNew York Court of Appeals · 1936
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