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                                  UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              WASHINGTON, DC 20549




                                    FORM 8-K


                                 Current Report
                       Pursuant to Section 13 or 15 (d) of
                       the Securities Exchange Act of 1934



       Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 19, 2006


                               AMBASE CORPORATION
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)



          Delaware                      1-07265                95-2962743
(State or other jurisdiction    (Commission File Number)   (I.R.S. Employer
      of incorporation)                                   Identification No.)



                  100 PUTNAM GREEN, GREENWICH, CT 06830-6027
       (Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)


                               (203) 532-2000
          (Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

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Item 8.01     OTHER EVENTS.

     The Company announced  that on December 13, 2006,  the United  States
Court of Federal  Claims  (the  "Court of Claims" or the  "Court")  ruled on the
United States  Department of Justice ("DOJ") and the Federal  Deposit  Insurance
Corporation  ("FDIC") motions requesting that Senior Judge Smith ("Judge Smith")
certify  for  immediate  appeal his 2004  ruling that the Company is entitled to
challenge   the   validity  of  the   receivership   deficit  for  the  Carteret
receivership.

     After the Court of Claims had ruled in 2004 that the Company  was  entitled
to challenge the validity of,  accounting  for, and amount of, the  receivership
deficit,  and DOJ and the FDIC had moved to certify  that  ruling for  immediate
interlocutory  appeal,  the Court of Claims had  allowed  the Company to conduct
discovery into  receivership  deficit  issues,  and had devised a procedure (the
"Show  Cause"  proceeding)  to allow the parties to brief to the Court of Claims
factual and legal issues pertaining to the validity of the receivership  deficit
and the  legitimacy of the inclusion in that deficit of certain types of claimed
receivership   expenses.  The  parties  thereafter  conducted  fact  and  expert
discovery with respect to receivership  deficit issues during 2005 and 2006, and
the parties further  submitted expert reports and legal briefs  discussing these
issues during the spring, summer and autumn of 2006. In November 2006, the Court
of Claims held a status conference  pertaining to the Show Cause proceeding,  at
which status conference the Court of Claims held limited oral argument regarding
the  factual  and legal  issues  bearing  upon the  validity  and  amount of the
receivership  deficit and regarding  further  proceedings in this action. At the
conclusion of that November status  conference,  the Court of Claims scheduled a
further  telephonic  status  conference  for  December  2006,  at which it would
announce its ruling on DOJ's and the FDIC's motions for certification. The Court
of Claims' December 13, 2006, order  memorializes the Court's oral ruling during
the December 12, 2006 telephonic status conference.

     Pursuant to the Court of Claims December 13, 2006 ruling,  the Court stated
that it was denying DOJ Motion for  Certification,  "because  the  argument  for
nonjusticiability  is fact  dependent  and it would  not  lead to the  efficient
administration  of  justice to certify  this issue in the  abstract."  The Court
further  stated  that  "after  reviewing  the  parties'  arguments  the  case is
justiciable at this time."

     The Court  directed  the  parties to confer and file a proposed  stipulated
Order with regard to expert  discovery and further  scheduled a telephone status
conference to be held in April 2007, for further  scheduling in preparation of a
trial on damages by Senior Judge Smith.

     Mr. Bianco stated that the Company is very pleased with the Court of Claims
ruling,  and  looks  forward  to the  scheduling  of a trial on  damages  in the
Company's Supervisory Goodwill case.

     Although no assurances can be given regarding the ultimate  outcome of this
litigation,  Mr.  Bianco said AmBase will  continue to  aggressively  pursue its
legal rights for the loss of Carteret Savings Bank.

     The  Court  of  Claims  opinion  in the  Company's  case,  as well as other
decisions in Winstar-related cases are publicly available on the Court of Claims
web site at www.cofc.uscourts.gov.  Decisions in other Winstar-related cases may
be  relevant  to  the  Company's   Supervisory  Goodwill  claims,  but  are  not
necessarily indicative of the ultimate outcome of the Company's actions.







                              SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the  requirements  of the Securities  Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

                                         AMBASE CORPORATION



Date:  December 19, 2006                 By:    /s/ John P. Ferrara
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                                         John P. Ferrara
                                         Vice President and Chief Financial
                                         Officer  and Controller
                                         (Principal Financial and
                                         Accounting Officer)