The Library of Congress >  Researchers >  Search Finding Aids  >  William Hoppen papers, 1831-1998
Some or all content stored offsite.
ContainerContents
Subject File, 1831-1997 (continued)
Citizens Committee for the Hudson Valley and Hudson River Expressway (Field D), 1955-1996 (continued)
BOX 108 Ewen, William H., newspaper clippings, 1966-1971
(7 folders)
BOX 109-152 Westway (Field E), 1871-1994
Litigation files and background material relating to the proposed West Side Interstate Highway (later named “Westway”) in Manhattan. Hoppen filed a lawsuit against the West Side Highway Project on behalf of Action for Rational Transit (ART) in 1974. This lawsuit centered on the project’s impact on air quality and on violations of the Clean Air Act, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and other federal regulations. Judge Thomas P. Griesa of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that the plaintiff(s) did not sufficiently demonstrate Westway’s air quality impact and the case was dismissed, a judgement upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1982. The subseries also contains material related to subsequent legal action, including a case filed by the Sierra Club against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers which successfully argued that the proposed highway would negatively impact the Hudson River’s fish population. Litigation files for these cases include affidavits, complaints, exhibits, interrogatories, transcripts, correspondence, and legal research. An alphabetical file which comprises more than half of the subseries contains correspondence, news clippings, newsletters, notes, pamphlets, research, reports, and other printed matter related to events, topics, and other organizations involved in or relevant to the fight against Westway.
Arranged according to an inventory created by Hoppen. Litigation files are filed at the beginning of the subseries followed by an alphabetical file organized by name, organization, legal case name, topic, or type of material. Files relating to the lawsuit brought by the Sierra Club v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers follow the alphabetical file. Miscellaneous articles and other material are filed at the end of the subseries. Newspaper clippings from this latter group were infected with mold and not retained.
BOX 109 Correspondence, 1974-1990
(6 folders)
BOX 109 General, 1977-1991
BOX 109 Litigation file
BOX 109 File A, 1974-1975
BOX 110 File B, air, 1975
BOX 110 File C, air, 1975
BOX 110 File C1, air, 1975
BOX 110 File D, air, 1975
(2 folders)
BOX 111 File E, procedures, 1970-1979
(3 folders)
BOX 111 Air quality materials, 1972-1975
(3 folders)
BOX 112 Air quality materials, 1975
(2 folders)
BOX 112 Evidence, West Side Highway Project, 1974
BOX 112 Exhibits, defendants, 1971-1975 See also Container OV 5, Map
(3 folders)
BOX 113 Exhibits, defendants, 1971-1975
(1 folder)
BOX 113 File F, plaintiffs' answers to state defendant interrogatories, 1974-1981
BOX 113 File G, 1970-1981
(2 folders)
BOX 113 File H, 1981-1982
(2 folders)
BOX 114 File I, includes Westway button, 1980-1981
BOX 114 File J, 1981
BOX 114 File K, 1981
(2 folders)
BOX 114 File L
BOX 114 Affidavits, 1981
BOX 114 Air quality procedures and reporting, partial trial, 1975
(1 folder)
BOX 115 Air quality procedures and reporting, partial trial, 1975
(4 folders)
BOX 115 Joint summary by defendants, facts and statutory provisions, 1975
BOX 115 Transcripts of hearings, 1976-1981
(2 folders)
BOX 115 Air quality material, 1975
(1 folder)
BOX 116 Air quality material, 1975
(2 folders)
BOX 116 Air quality reporting trial, exhibits, 1973-1975
(4 folders)
BOX 117 Air quality reporting trial, exhibits, 1973-1975
(3 folders)
BOX 117 File M, 1974-1981
(2 folders)
BOX 118 File M, 1974-1981
(3 folders)
BOX 118 File N, 1977-1981
(2 folders)
BOX 118 File O, 1978-1981
BOX 118 File P, 1981
(1 folder)
BOX 119 File P, 1981
(1 folder)
BOX 119 File Q, 1981-1983
BOX 119 Appeal, U.S. Court of Appeals, 1981-1983
(2 folders)
BOX 119 Appendices, plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction, 1975-1980
(2 folders)
BOX 120 Appendices, plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction, 1975-1980
(2 folders)
BOX 120 Briefs and appendices, 1981
(2 folders)
BOX 121 Briefs and appendices, 1981
(3 folders)
BOX 122 Fees, 1974-1987
(4 folders)
BOX 122 Alphabetical file
BOX 122 Abrams, Robert, 1980
BOX 122 Abzug, Bella, 1977-1978
BOX 122 Action for Rational Transit
BOX 122 General, 1974-1982
BOX 122 Publicity, 1974
BOX 122 Stationery, 1975
BOX 122 Ad Hoc Committee Against Westway, 1974-1982
BOX 123 Adams, Brock, West Side Highway Project, 1977-1978
BOX 123 Affirmation of service, 1975
BOX 123 Alternatives, 1972-1981
BOX 123 Amended complaint, 1981
BOX 123 American Rivers Conservation Council v. Flacke, 1978-1980
BOX 123 Anderson, Warren, 1979
BOX 123 Anti-environmental attacks, 1982
BOX 123 Attorney general, New York State, 1974-1979
BOX 123 Auto-free zones, 1974-1976
BOX 123 Battery Park City, New York, N.Y., 1969-1981
BOX 123 Beame, Abraham, 1976
BOX 123 Bellamy, Carol, 1978
BOX 123 Berger, Henry T., 1977
BOX 123 Berle, Peter A., firing as commissioner, 1977-1980
BOX 123 Beyer-Blinder Associates, Greenwich Village, New York, N.Y., waterfront development study, 1970-1980
BOX 123 Bids, Westway, 1981
BOX 123 Board of Estimate, New York, N.Y., 1978-1983
(1 folder)
BOX 124 Board of Estimate, New York, N.Y., 1978-1983
(1 folder)
BOX 124 Budget
BOX 124 Funds from condemnation of West Side Highway corridor lands, 1974-1979
BOX 124 Inclusion of Westway condemnation funds, 1976-1979
(2 folders)
BOX 124 Burden, Carter, 1978
BOX 124 Business, West Side Highway Project, 1976-1982
BOX 124 Business for Mass Transit, 1981
BOX 124 Canal Street, SoHo neighborhood, New York, N.Y., 1977
BOX 124 Carey, Hugh L.
BOX 124 General, 1977-1992
BOX 124 Disagreement with Eckardt Christian Beck, 1978
BOX 124 Carter, Jimmy
BOX 124 Transportation, 1977-1978
BOX 124 West Side Highway Project, 1976-1978
BOX 124 Citizens for Clean Air
BOX 124 West Side Highway Project, 1974-1977
BOX 125 West Side Highway lawsuit, funding, 1976
BOX 125 Westway mailing, 1977
BOX 125 Citizens' taxpayer lawsuit, 1978
BOX 125 Civil rights, 1977
BOX 125 Coalition Against the West Side Expressway, 1973
Next Page »

Contents List