By Adam Leitman Bailey October 2nd, 2009 Q. Can a landlord stop a tenant from sub- letting a rent-stabilized apartment? I’ve heard that a landlord can require a credit check and use this information to reject a subtenant. Is this true? A. Adam Leitman Bailey, a Manhattan real estate lawyer, said that under state law, Full Article…
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Q & A: Individual Meters In a Rental Building, The New York Times, Jay Romano
By Adam Leitman Bailey November 13th, 2009 Q. Our landlord is installing individual electric meters in each apartment in our building, which has a mixture of regulated and nonregulated tenants. Each tenant will be paying for his or her own electricity, but at a lower-than- normal rate because of the large total consumption. Is this Full Article…
What You Must Know When Negotiating a Laundry Room Contract, New York Housing Journal
By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman April 1st, 2009 It’s amazing how good building owners and managers are at increasing and garnering revenue from residential tenants while at the same time leaving themselves to the will and whim of laundry room operators who impose contracts lasting for decades with automatic renewals, rights of first Full Article…
Adam Leitman Bailey Predicts Decreased Prices and Bubble Bursting More Than Two Years Before Real Estate Crash, BP Vance Real Estate News
Adam Leitman Bailey Predicts Decreased Prices and Bubble Bursting More Than Two Years Before Real Estate Crash By: Adam Leitman Bailey September 1st, 2006 Understanding our local real estate market is vital to making current or future housing plans. New York City home prices have slowly been falling. Developers’ betting on the condominium market has Full Article…
When Your Adversary May Be A Few Cards Short Of A Complete Deck, What’s the Deal?, Dov Treiman’s Landlord-Tenant Monthly
By Carolyn Z. Rualo June 1st, 2007 How often it is observed that a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client! Yet wise as that aphorism is, it is all the more striking when the lawyer is not only self-representing, but perhaps sufficiently mentally ill as to be “an adult incapable of Full Article…
Impact of New York City’s Amended Noise Control Code, New York Law Journal
July 2nd, 2008 Although noise is a reality of modern urban living, it is also considered the leading quality of life issue in New York City.1 After nearly 40 years, the New York City Noise Control Code (the Code) was amended, effective July 1, 2007 (the Amended Code).2 The amendments define unreasonable noise as sound Full Article…
Jackie Halpern was recognized for her “excellent research assistance” in a paper published in the Georgia State University Law Review, Volume 25, No. 3, Spring 2009, Georgia State University Law Review
Jackie Halpern was recognized for her “excellent research assistance” in a paper published in the Georgia State University Law Review, Volume 25, No. 3, Spring 2009. https://alblawfirm.com/honors-awards/jackie-halpern-was-recognized-for-her-excellent-research-assistance-in-a-paper-published-in-the-georgia-state-university-law-review-volume-25-no-3-spring-2009/
Declaratory Judgement: Judges May Weigh Title if Ancillary to Authorized Relief, New York Law Journal
By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman December 13th, 2006 There continues to be a good deal of confusion and controversy about what kinds of things the Civil Court can and cannot hear. Often litigants and sometimes even courts will mistake a call for the Civil Court to make a particular determination on the way Full Article…
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