Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York December 19, 2012 (New York Central Lines, LLC v. State)

In January 2000, the State of New York appropriated, partially in fee and partially through permanent easement, several parcels of the claimant’s real property (hereinafter the appropriated property) for the purpose of expanding the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The appropriated property was part of a rail corridor owned by the claimant.