Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York October 2, 2012 (Grayson v. New York City Department of Parks & Recreation)

In this CPLR article 78 proceeding, petitioners, a group of individuals who reside within two blocks of Riverside Park (the Park), in Manhattan, where they handle dogs, sought, inter alia, a declaration that respondent’s practice of requiring that all dogs be on a leash within five blocks of any of the four dog runs in the Park, between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m.