Curran v. City of New York

In Curran v. City of New York, 191 Misc 229, 77 N.Y.S.2d 206, a taxpayer sought a judgment declaring invalid, inter alia, a license permitting "the temporary use by the United Nations of the New York City Building in Flushing Meadow Park as a meeting place for the General Assembly ...." (Curran, 191 Misc2d at 230). The Court dismissed the action on the grounds that "while it be true, generally, that land dedicated as a park is inalienable without legislative fiat, it seems to this Court that the temporary use for such obvious public purpose would be permissible under the law as enunciated in all of the leading cases on the subject." (Id. at 234).