In re Prospect Street

This is a motion to confirm the report of commissioners of estimate and assessment in a proceeding to acquire certain lands for the opening of Prospect street.(a) The corporation counsel objects to the confirmation of the report in so far as it awards damages to certain abutting owners for parts of buildings extending over the lines of the street. It is claimed on the part of the city that, prior to the institution of this proceeding, Prospect street had been dedicated to the public as a street, and that the dedication had been accepted. Several private maps filed in the Queens county clerk’s…