A State Supreme Court Justice yesterday upheld the right of the Jewish community of Garden City, a suburb of New York City, to use a house it had purchased in the town for a synagogue and school. The judges decision reversed a ruling of the Garden City zoning board which refused last May to permit the use of the $86,000 building for such purposes.
Judge Mareus G. Christ, sitting in the Mineola court, ordered the town to issue a certificate of occupancy to the Jewish center after he had read a 500-page brief and other documents filed by attorneys for the center.
The zoning board had ruled that future expansion of the congregation, currently 60 families, would render the building inadequate and would have a detrimental effect on neighboring property. Garden City has nine houses of worship, none a synagogue.
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