WPCNR CITY HALL CIRCUIT. From The Mayor's Office. August 12, 2003: The Mayor's Executive Officer George Gretsas announced today that Judge Richard Molea of the New York State Supreme Court has ruled in favor of  the city in the Article 78 action brought by Concerned Citizens for Open Space against the city and New York Presbyterian Hospital last September, after approximately a three month review. (Final papers in the suit were filed at the end of April, 2003.

Mr. Gretsas said the ruling "throws out the suit, though Concerned Citizens for Open Space has the right to appeal."

Gretsas made no other comment. The suit sought to deny the city's approval of the Special Permit  paving the way for New York Presbyterian Hospital  to build biomedical research and proton accelerator complex on the grounds that a zoning change was needed. That approval came last August, and CCOS filed their Article 78 suit in September, 2002.