Buck v. Civil Court of City of New York

— In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, inter alia, to enjoin the Department of Housing Preservation and Development of the City of New York from taking certain actions in the Civil Court of the City of New York, Queens County, the department appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Buschmann, J.), dated July 3,1980, as, upon its motion to dismiss, (1) converted the article 78 proceeding into an action for a declaratory judgment and (2) enjoined, pending the determination of the declaratory judgment action, further proceedings in an action commenced by the…