108 A.D.2d 914 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1985
In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, inter alia, to enjoin respondents from commencing a project to expand the New York City Transit Authority’s (Authority) Jamaica Rapid Transit Storage Yard until an environmental impact statement (EIS) is submitted by the Authority to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) pursuant to the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act ([SEQRA] ECL art 8), petitioners appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Vaccaro, J.), dated October 11, 1983, which dismissed the proceeding.
Judgment affirmed, with costs.
There is no merit to petitioners’ contention that the Justice at Special Term committed reversible error when he engaged in correspondence with DEC concerning the highly technical issues involved in the instant proceeding, resulting in a letter from DEC, dated September 30, 1983, which he considered in rendering his decision on the matter, because the evidence on the record was sufficient to uphold the Authority’s negative declaration (cf. Palmer v Wright & Kremers, 62 AD2d 1170; Levy v Levy, 53 AD2d 833, lv denied 40 NY2d 808; Fabrikant v Seley, 49 AD2d 861, appeal denied 39 NY2d 705).
We have considered the remaining contentions of the parties and find them to be without merit. Titone, J. P., Mangano, Bracken and Niehoff, JJ., concur.