New York Law Journal By: Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman April 8th, 2015 One developer-client once told us, “horse racing is not the sport of kings—litigation is.” During the greatest high end real estate market in the history of our country, the ultra wealthy or the corporate kings have battled in our courts for Full Article…
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Use Nine Arguments to Beat DOB Violations, Apartment Law Insider
If you’re like most owners, you’ve probably spent some time at the Environmental Control Board (ECB) fighting violations issued by the Department of Buildings (DOB). And you know it isn’t easy to beat those violations. That’s why it’s important to have as much ammunition as possible, to fight those violations successfully. To help you, ALI Full Article…
Select Issues in Representing HPD Supervised Mitchell-Lama Cooperatives, New York Real Property Law Journal
By Adam Leitman Bailey New York City Mitchell-Lama cooperatives provide heavily publicly subsidized maintenance payments to those lucky enough to call them home. The New York City Mitchell-Lama program provides 54,000 homes to persons whose financial circumstances would otherwise negate such a possibility. As a result, Mitchell-Lama cooperatives are extremely popular and have decade long Full Article…
Q & A: When a Building Co-op Commandeers a Terrace, The New York Times
By Adam Leitman Bailey Q. Our terrace is the staging area for work on the co-op’s facade, rendering it virtually unusable. Are we entitled to a maintenance reduction? A. Adam Leitman Bailey,a Manhattan real estate lawyer, said that while a co-op’s governing documents might give a shareholder exclusive use of a terrace, the typical proprietary Full Article…
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