Hand v. Hospital for Special Surgery

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael D. Stallman, J.), entered February 3, 2012, denying the petition which sought to annul the determinations by the City respondents approving the proposed expansion of the Hospital for Special Surgery’s (HSS) campus, and dismissing the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The record establishes that the municipal respondents’ took a “hard look” at the anticipated adverse environmental impact of HSS’s planned expansion and provided a “reasoned elaboration” of the basis for its determination (see…