Haverstraw loses $6M waterfront eminent domain case
“A property owner who won a decade-long eminent domain case says the village has yet to pay him the more than $6 million he’s owed.
But the mayor counters that the developer who put up luxury condominiums on the waterfront land has got to foot the bill.
The 18.9-acre property, formerly owned by AAA Electricians Inc., is part of 25 acres the Harbors at Haverstraw was built on in 2005.
The state Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, recently decided not to hear the village’s appeal of the property’s value, finalizing the 2011 Supreme Court decision that priced it at $6.5 million.
The owner received about $2.6 million when it was forced to sell in 2003.”
Matsuda, Akiko. LoHud News 21 November 2014.