Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of Morris Schwartz, Respondent, for a Mandamus Order against Walter C. Martin, Commissioner of the Tenement House Department of the City of New York, and Edward Vacey, Second Deputy, Commissioner, in Charge of the Tenement House Department in the Borough of Brooklyn, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1929-12
Citations: 228 A.D. 632
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of Morris Schwartz, Respondent, for a Mandamus Order against Walter C. Martin, Commissioner of the Tenement House Department of the City of New York, and Edward Vacey, Second Deputy, Commissioner, in Charge of the Tenement House Department in the Borough of Brooklyn, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 228
Pages: 632–632

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Application of Morris Schwartz, Respondent, for a Mandamus Order against Walter C. Martin, Commissioner of the Tenement House Department of the City of New York, and Edward Vacey, Second Deputy, Commissioner, in Charge of the Tenement House Department in the Borough of Brooklyn, Appellants.

Opinion:
Order, Appellants. resettled, granting application for peremptory mandamus order, reversed upon the law and the facts, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and application denied, with fifty dollars costs. We are of the opinion that the erection of the proposed garage on the rear of the lot upon which the tenement house now stands would be a violation of the provisions of sections 52 and 61 of the Tenement House Law. It would violate section 52 of the Tenement House Law, § in it would diminish the yard space or area at the rear of the tenement house. It would violate section 61 of the Tenement House Law, in that (1) the front wall of said proposed garage building would be less than twenty-one feet, six and one-half inches from the rear wall of the said tenement teneand (2) the yard which now extends across the entire width of the lot to a depth of twenty-one feet, six and one-half inches would be decreased in size. 'The lot not only includes that portion on which the tenement house is erected and now stands, but also that portion which includes the court. Lazansky, P. J., Young, Kapper, Hagarty and Carswell, JJ., concur.