The Metropolitan Transportation Authority must pay more than an additional $55 million to the owners of land it acquired through eminent domain to build the Fulton Street Transit Center, which is under construction in lower Manhattan.
A unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, First Department, ruled yesterday in In re Metropolitan Transportation Authority, etc., 401185/08, 401188/08 and 401192/08, that the MTA had underpaid Collegiate Church and an affiliated joint venture and DLR Properties for the land. The ruling, which upheld a lower court decision, was written by Justice Rosalyn H. Richter (See Profile) and joined by Justices Peter Tom (See Profile), John W. Sweeny, Jr. (See Profile), Helen E. Freedman (See Profile) and Sheila Abdus-Salaam (See Profile).
