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1940-1949 |
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1970-Present
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Bernardine
v. City of New York, 294 N.Y. 361 (1945); see also, Cohen
v. Hallmark Cards, Inc., 45 N.Y. 2d 493 (1978)
People ex rel. Goetzger v. Roosevelt,
7 App.Div. 181 (1st Dept. 1896); People ex rel. Howard
v. Roosevelt, 15 App.Div. 401 (1st Dept.), aff’d,
153 N.Y. 689 (1897).
In re Hummel, 122 App.Div. 887 (1st
Dept. 1907)
Williams v. City of New York, 130
App.Div. 182 (1st Dept. 1909).
Roberts v. New York Life Ins. Co.,
195 App.Div. 97 (1st Dept. 1921), aff’d, 233 N.Y.
639 (1922)
Snare and Triest Co. v. City of New
York, 191 App.Div. 184 (1st Dept. 1920), aff’d,
233 N.Y. 528 (1922).
Rose v. New York and Harlem Railroad
Co., 108 App.Div. 206 (1st Dept. 1905).
City of New York v. Fulton Street
Railroad Co., 130 App.Div. 791 (1st Dept. 1909).
Yellow Taxicab Co. v. William Gaynor,
159 App.Div. 893 (1st Dept. 1913).
Parson v.. Van Wyck, Mayor of the
City of New York, 56 App.Div. 329 (1st Dept. 1900).

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People
v. Charles Schweinler Press, 163 App. Div. 620 App.Div.
620 (1st Dept.), aff’d, 214 N.Y. 395 (1915), writ
of error dismissed, 242 U.S. 618 (1916).
Altman v. Schlesinger 204 App.Div.
513 (1st Dept. 1923).
Compagnie de Trefileries and Laminoirs
Du Havre v. France and Canadian Steamship Co., 192 App.Div.
709 (1st Dept. 1920), aff’d, 233 N.Y. 596 (1922)
Russian Socialist Federated Soviet
Republic v. Jacques Roberto Cibrario, 201 App.Div. 888
(1st Dept.), aff’d, 235 N.Y. 255 (1921).
Shubert Theatrical Co. v. Gallagher,
206 App.Div. 514 (1st Dept. 1923).
Harry Rogers Theatrical Enterprises
v. Comstock, 225 App.Div. 34 (1st Dept. 1928)
Fairbanks v. Winik, 206 App.Div.
451 (1st Dept. 1923).
Reiley v. Waterson, 202 App.Div.
634 (1st Dept. 1922), aff’d, 235 N.Y. 580, rearag.
Denied, 236 N.Y. 542 (1923).
Alexander Woolcott v. Lee Shubert, 169 App.Div. 194
(1st Dept. 1915)
People v. Hammerstein, 155 App.Div.
204 (1st Dept. 1913, aff’d, 211 N.Y. 552 (1914)
A.M. Woods TheatreCo. V. Gilchrist,
Commissioner of
Licenses of the City of N.Y. , 200 App.Div. 128 (1st
Dept.), rev’d, 233 N.Y. 616 (1922).
Boer v. Garcia, 208 App.Div. 841
(1st Div. 1924, aff’d, 240 N.Y. 9 (1925)

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Matter
of the Investigation of the Magistrates’ Court
in the First Judicial Department and the Magistrates
there of. Order signed by Appellate Division Aug. 25,
1930. (Appointment of Samuel Seabury as Referee).
Matter of the Application of the
City of New York, Relative to the Manhattan Railway
Company, 238 App.Div. 832 (1st Dept. 1933), aff’d,
265 N.Y. 170 (1934), aff’d, 295 U.S. 264 (1935).
Matter of the City of New York, Relative
to Acquiring Title to Lands of the Bronx as a Site for
the Triborough Bridge, 249 App.Div. 579 (1st dept.),
aff’d, 274 N.Y. 581 (1937).
Matter of Acquiring Title by the
City of N.Y. as Sites for Parkway and Park Purposes,
259 App.Div. 552 (1st Dept.), aff’d, 284 N.Y.48
(1940), aff’d, 313 U.S. 540 (1941).
Matter of Acquiring Title by the
City of N.Y. for the Opening and Extending of the Saw
Mill River Parkway, 252 App.Div. 842 (1st Dept. 1937).
Matter of Acquiring Title by the
City of New York for the Opening and Extending of East
River Drive, 264 App.Div. 555 (1st Dept. 1942), aff’d,
298 N.Y. 843 (1949).
Matter of Acquiring Title by the
City of New York for the Housing Project of Stuyvesant
Town Corporation, 269 App.Div. 1017 (1st Dept. 1945).
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Nicholas
Voevodine v. Government of the Commander-in-
Chief of Armed Forces in the South of Russia, 232 App.Div.
204 (1st Dept.), aff’d, 257 N.Y. 557 (1931).
M. Solimoff & Co. v. Standard
Oil Co., 237 App.Div. 686 (1st Dept.), aff’d,
262 N.Y. 220 (1933).
Peters v. Moses, 259 App.Div. 307
(1st Dept. 1940).
Hamilton v. Moses, 275 App.Div. 76
(1st Dept. 1949).
Werfel v. Zivnostenska Banka, 260
App.Div. 747 (1st Dept. 1940), rev’d, 287 N.Y.
91 (1941).
Von Hofmannsthal v. Wolfe, 276 App.Div.
223 (1st Dept. 1949).
H.P. Drewry v. Onassis, 266 App.Div.
292 (1st Dept. 1943), aff’d, 291 N.Y. 779 (1944).
Elizabeth Roper v. Patrick Walsh,
as Fire Commissioner, 264 App.Div. 325 (1st Dept.),
aff’d, 289 N.Y. 546 (1942).
People v. Reiman, 266 App.Div. 505
(1st Dept. 1943).
In re Greenberg, 267 App.Div. 530
(1st Dept.), lv. Denied, 267 App.Div. 974 (1st Dept.
1944).
Winternitz v. Morton, 272 App.Div.
339 (1st Dept.), aff’d, 297 N.Y. 541 (1947).
Weitzner v. Stickman, 271 App.Div.
255 (1st Dept. 1946).
Edward Sullivan v. Daily Mirror,
Inc., 232 App.Div. 507 (1st Dept. 1931).
Macaulay Co. v. Walter Winchell,
259 App.Div. 300 (1st Dept. 1940).
Curtis B. Dall v. Time, Inc., 252
App.Div. 636 (1st Dept. 1937), aff’d, 278 N.Y.
635 (1938).

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Polakoff
v. Hill, 261 App.Div. 777 (1st Dept. 1941).
Noone v. Fred Perlberg, Inc., 268
App.Div. 149 (1st Dept. 1944), aff’d, 294 N.Y.
680 (1945).
Liza Company v. Mark Hellinger Theatre,
Inc., 19 A.D.2d 288 (1st Dept. 1963), aff’d, 14
N.Y.2d 891 (1964).
In the Matter of Vivienne W. Neariing,
16 A.D.2d 516 (1st Dept. 1962).
Ciarlo v. N.Y. City Employees’
Retirement System, 270 App.Div. 594 (1st Dept. 1946),
aaff’d, 296 N.Y. 962 (1947).
Schneider v. Kennat, 267 App.Div.
589 (1st Dept.), lv. Denied, 267 App.Div. 954 (1st Dept.
1944).
St. Nicholas Cathedral of the Russian
Orthodox Church in North America v. Kedroff and Fedchenkoff,
as Archbishop ofo the Arch-Diocese of North America
and the Aleutian Islanads of the Russian Orthodox Greek
Catholic Church, 276 App.Div. 309 (1st Dept.), rev’d,
302 N.Y. 1, (1950), rev’d, 344 U.S. 94 (1952).
Gambuzza v. Time, Inc., 18 A.D.2d
351 (1st Dept. 1963).
John H. Faulk v. AWARE, Inc., 19
A.D.2d 464 (1st Dept. 1963), aff’d, 14 N.Y. 899
(1964).
Van Blerkom v. Donovan, 22 A.D.2d
71 (1st Dept. 1964, aff’d, 15 N.Y.2d 399 (1965)
Holland v. Edward, 282 App.Div. 353
(1st Dept. 1953), aff’d, 307 N.Y. 38 (1954)
American Jewish Congress v. Carter,
10 A.D.2d 833 (1st Dept. 1960), aff’d, 9 N.Y.2d
223 (1961); Shpritzer v. Lang, 17 A.D.2d 285 (1Dept.
1962), aff’d, 13 N.Y.2d 744 (1963).
Lichtenstein v. Jansen, 4 A.D.2d
465 (1st Dept. 1957), aff’d, 5 N.Y.2d 995 (1959).
Hill v. Hayes and Time, Inc., 18
A.D.2d (1st Dept. 1963), app. after remand, 15 N.Y.2d
986 (1965), vacated, 385 U.S. 374 (1967).
Clark v. Iceland Steamship Company,
Ltd., 6 A.D.2d 544 (1st Dept. 1958) lv. Denied 7 A.D.2d
837 (1st Dept. 1959). Connolly v. O’Malley, 17
A.D.2d 411 (1st Dept. 1962).
Connolly v. New York Shipping Ass’n,
20 A.D.2d 18 (1sst Dept. 1963), aff’d, 15 N.Y.2d
903 (1965).
In re Iino Shipbuilding v. Hellenic
Lines, Ltd., 6 A.D.2d 159 (1st Dept. 1958), aff’d,
5 N.Y.2d 987 (1959).
Dallesandro v. Henry Holt and Co., 4 A.D.2d 470 (1st
Dept.), app. dismissed, 7 N.Y.2d 735 (1957).
In re Bronx River Expressway, 282
App.Div. 925 (1st Dept. 1953), aff’d, 308 N.Y.
782 (1955).
Matter of the N.Y. Port Authority,
Relating to Acquiring Title to Real Property - George
Washington Bridge, 12 A.D.2d 18 (1st Dept. 1960).
Courtesy Sandwich Shop v. Port of
New York Authority, 17 A.D.2d 590 (1st Dept.), rev’d,
12 N.Y.2d 379, app. dismissed, 375 U.S. 78, reh’g
denied, 375 U.S. 960 (1963)
Matter of the Port Authority, Relative
to Acquiring Title to Real Property for the Lincoln
Tunnel, 1 A.D.2d 801 (1st Dept. 1956), rev’d,
2 N.Y.2d 296 (1957).
Matter of Parkview Ass’n v.
City of New York, 129 A.D.2d 405 (1st Dept. 1987), aff’d,
71 N.Y.2d 274 (1988)

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Pennsylvania
Central Transportation Co. v. City of N.Y., 50 A.D.2d
265 (1st Dept. 1975), aff’d, 42 N.Y.2d 324 (1977),
aff’d, 438 U.S. 104, reh’g denied, 439 U.S.
883 (1978).
Shubert organization v. Landmark
Preservation Commission of the City of New York and
Save the Theatres, Inc., 166 A.D.2d 115 (1st Dept.),
lv. Denied, 79 N.Y.2d 751 (1991), cert. Denied, 504
U.S. 946 (1992).
Save the Audubon Coalition v. City
of New York, 180 A.D.2d 348 (1st Dept. 1992), lv. denied,
81 N.Y.2d 702 (1993).
Matter of London, Chairman of the
Coalition to Save Naumberg Bandshell v. Art Commission
of the City of N.Y., 190 A.D.2d 557 (1st Dept.), lv.
denied, 82 N.Y.2d 652 (1993).
Rector v. Committee to Preserve St.
Bartholomew’s Church, Inc., 84 A.D.2d 309 (1st
Dept.), stay denied, 56 N.Y.2d 592 (1982).
Rector v. Committee to Preserve St.
Bartholomew’s Church, Inc., 85 A.D.2d 425 (1st
Dept.), aff’d, 56 N.Y.2d 71, reh’g denied,
57 N.Y.2d 674 (1982).
McCain v. Koch, 117 A.D.2d 198 (1st
Dept. 1987), rev’d in part, 70 N.Y.2d 109, app.
after remand, 136 A.D.2d 473 (1st Dept. 1988).
Lamboy v. Gross, 126 A.D.2d 265 (1st
Dept. 1987).
Eldredge v. Koch, 98 A.D.2d 675 (1st
Dept. 1983).
Mixon v. Grinker, 212 A.D.2d 183
(1st Dept. 1995).
Doe v. Dinkins, 192 A.D.2d 270 (1st
Dept. 1993).
Thomas S. v. Robin Y., 209 A.D.2d
298 (1st Dept. 1994), app. dismissed, 86 N.Y.2d 779
(1995).
Matter of Kaywonne M., 210 A.D.2d
54 (1st Dept. 1994).
Matter of Adult Anonymous II, 88
A.D.2d 30 (1st Dept. 1982).
Commissioner of Social Services of
the City of N.Y., o/b/o Celia D. v. Hector S., 628 N.Y.S.2d
270 (1st Dept. 1995); see also, In re Estate of Janis,
210 A.D.2d 101 (1st Dept. 1994).
Bechler v. Eli Lily Co., 79 A.D.2d
317 (1st Dept. 1981), aaff’d, 55 N.Y.2d 571 (1982).
In re New York County Asbestos Litigation,
Brooklyn Naval Shipyard Cases, 188 A.D.2d 214 (1st Dept.),
aaff’d, 82 N.Y.2d 821 (1993).
Penn Central Transportation Co. v.
City of N.Y., 50 A.D.2d 265 (1st Dept. 1975), aff’d,
42 N.Y.2d 324 (1977), aff’d, 438 U.S. 104, reh’g
denied, 439 U.S. 883 (1978).
Board of Trustees of the Museum of
American Indian, Heye Foundation v. Board of Trustees
of the Huntington Free Library and Readiing Room, 197
A.D.2d 64 (1st Dept. 1994), lv. denied, 86 N.Y.2d 702
(1995).
Immuno A.G. v. J. Moor-Jankowski,
145 A.D.2d 114 (1st Dept. 1989), aff’d, 74 N.Y.2
548 (1989), vacated, 497 U.S. 1021 (1990), on remand,
77 N.Y.2d 235, cert. denied, 500 U.S. 954 (1991).
People ex rel Maxian v. Brown, 164
A.D.2d 56 (1st Dept. 1990), aff’d, 77 N.Y.2d 422
(1991).
Hampton v. Guare, 195 A.D.2d 366
(1st Dept.), lv. denied, 82 N.Y.2d 659 (1993).
Allen v. Gordon, 86 A.D.2d 514 (1st
Dept.), aff’d, 56 N.Y.2d 780 (1982).
Brinkley v. Casablancas, 80 A.D.2d
428 (1st Dept. 1981).
Mercury Bay Boatiang v. San Diego
Yacht Club, 150 A.D.2d 82 (1st Dept. 1989), aff’d
76 N.Y.2d 256 (1990).
Spahn v. Julian Messner Inc., 23
A.D.2d 216 (1st Dept. 1965), aff’d, 18 N.Y.2d
324 (1966), vacated, 387 U.S. 239, on remand, 20 N.Y.2d
752, on rearg., 21N.Y.2d 124 (1967), app. dismissed,
393 U.S. 1046 (1968).
Parks v. Steinbrenner, 131 A.D.2d
60 (1st Dept. 1987). Namath v. Sports Illustrated, 48
A.D.2d 487 (1st Dept. 1975), aff’d, 39 N.Y.2d
897 (1976).
New York Road Runner’s Club
v. New York State Division of Human Rights, 81 A.D.2d
519 (1st Dept. 1981), aff’d, 55 N.Y.2d 122 (1982).

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The Court would like to express its sincerest appreciation to the members of the Committee on the Centennial for the long hours and hard work they undertook in the preparation of this book on the first century of the First Department: Ronald E. Cohen, Esq.; Sidney H. Gribetz, Esq.; Marcia S. Huttner; Ann D. Lopatto, Esq.; James C. Neely; Emily M. Olshansky, Esq.; Ruth E. Smith, Esq.
The Court also wishes to extend its thanks to the following individuals who contributed their expertise to this project:
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Position |
| Hon. Norman Goodman |
New York County Clerk and Clerk of the Supreme Court |
| Hon. Leo Levy |
Bronx County Clerk and Clerk of the Supreme Court William J. Diamond - Commissioner, Department of General Services of the City of New York |
| George J. Rios |
Commissioner, Department of Records and Information Services of the City of New York |
| Kenneth R. Cobb |
Director, Municipal Archives |
| Bruce Abrams |
Archivist, New York County Clerk’s Office |
| Adrienne Bresnan |
Assistant Commissioner for Preservation, Division of Design and Construction Services, Department of General Services |
| Lenora A. Gidlund |
Deputy Director, Municipal Archives |
| Charles Suddarth Kelly |
Historiographer in Classical Architecture and Sculpture |
| Hannah McAninch |
Deputy, Historic Preservation Office, Department of General Services |
| Robert Sink |
Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscripts Division, New York Public Library |
| Joseph Van Nostrand |
Supervising Archivist, New York County Clerk’s Office |
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