ALBANY – Educational institutions enjoy a favored place in New York when seeking the exercise of eminent domain for construction projects, supporters of a $6.3 billion Columbia University expansion in the Manhattanville area of Harlem argued yesterday before the state Court of Appeals.
Columbia is seeking to overturn a 3-2 Appellate Division, First Department, ruling that rejected the use of eminent domain for a project intended to benefit what Justice James Catterson called a “private elite educational institution” (NYLJ, Dec. 4, 2009).
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