Opinion
May 1, 1995
Appeal from the Court of Claims (Rossetti, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The claimants failed to prove that their property was separated from the Village of Lawrence as a result of the construction of the Nassau Expressway and the defendant's taking of a one-foot-wide strip at the rear of the property. The claimants also failed to prove that they are entitled to compensation for noise and increased traffic (see, Dennison v State of New York, 22 N.Y.2d 409; Valicenti v State of New York, 35 A.D.2d 610; Kauffman v State of New York, 43 A.D.2d 1004, affd 36 N.Y.2d 745).
The severance damages and the cost-to-cure damages adequately compensated the claimants for the loss of access from Doughty Boulevard to their garage (see, Priestly v State of New York, 23 N.Y.2d 152; Matter of County of Rockland [Kohl Indus. Park Co.], 147 A.D.2d 478). Moreover, the damages awarded by the Court of Claims are within the range of damages to which the experts testified at the trial of this claim (see, Matter of City of New York [Reiss], 55 N.Y.2d 885; City of Batavia v Bolas, 174 A.D.2d 993; City of Buffalo v Goldman, 63 A.D.2d 828, 829; Kommit v State of New York, 60 A.D.2d 945).
We have examined the claimants' remaining contentions and find them to be without merit. Sullivan, J.P., O'Brien, Ritter and Goldstein, JJ., concur.