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The Public Trust Doctrine holds that when a municipality acquires land for an expressly public purpose, it cannot later sell or otherwise alienate the use of that land for private use without the State Legislature’s approval (
see e.g. 1
0 E. Realty, LLC v Inc. Vill. of Valley Stream, 17 AD3d 474, 476 [2d Dept 2005]). The Doctrine is often raised in disputes over the sale or alienation of public parkland (
see e.g.
Glick v. Harvey, 25 NY3d 1175 [2015] [in which the petitioners claimed that certain lands in Greenwich Village, New York, were impliedly dedicated as public parkland);