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Coudert Brothers, LLP, counsel to Tiffany and Company. Zoning Lot Merger with Trump-Equitable Fifth Avenue Company (1 volume), 1980 June 25
Scope and Contents
Transfer of air rights above the Tiffany and Company building at 727 Fifth Avenue to the Trump-Equitable Fifth Avenue Company. This purchase ensured no other developer could erect on the Tiffany site a building taller than 58-story Trump Tower, then under construction next door at 721-725 Fifth Avenue (completed 1983).
McCarter & English, LLP, counsel to donor. Railbanked Donation of the Highline Elevated Rail Viaduct. CSX Transportation, Inc., donor, The City of New York, donee (3 volumes), 2005 November 4
Scope and Contents
Railbanking of the High Line from Little West 12th Street to West 34th Street, and donation of the portion from Little West 12th Street to West 30th Street. (According to the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, "railbanking" is "a voluntary agreement between a railroad company and a trail agency to use an out-of-service rail corridor as a trail until a railroad might need the corridor again for rail service.")
McCarter & English, LLP, counsel to donor. Donation of the Upper Highline Elevated Rail Viaduct. CSX Transportation, Inc., donor, The City of New York, donee (2 volumes), 2012 July 11
Scope and Contents
Donation of the High Line from the northern side of West 30th Street to West 34th Street and 11th Avenue.