N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 5-313: § 5-313 View by court.

It shall be the duty of the justice trying any such proceeding, to view the real property to be thereby acquired in accordance with section five hundred ten of the eminent domain procedure law. Where title to real property being acquired in a proceeding shall have been vested in the city, and buildings or improvements situated thereon shall have been removed or destroyed by the city or pursuant to its authority prior to the trial of the proceeding, and whereby the justice trying the proceeding is deprived of a view of the buildings or improvements so removed or destroyed, the fact that the justice has not had a view thereof shall not preclude the court from receiving on the trial of the proceeding testimony and evidence, as to the damage sustained by the claimant by reason of the taking thereof, when offered on behalf of either the claimant or the city.