Adam Clayton Powell IV sued to stop the City of New York from rebuilding a waste-management facility on the Upper East Side because state approval of the project hadn't been secured.
Back in 2004, when it announced plans to reopen an old garbage-packaging site, the City needed to use a pedestrian thoroughfare and some storage space below the neighboring Asphalt Green Sports Center.
Because the Sport's Center was on private land, and since the City only needed state approval if a public park was going to be repurposed, the New York County Supreme Court incinerated Adam Clayton Powell's claim. And on appeal, the Appellate Division, First Department, agreed that state approval was unnecessary since parkland wasn't involved.
Was there no discarding that?
To view a copy of the Appellate Division's decision, please use this link: Powell v. City of New York