By: Adam Leitman Bailey & Dov Treiman For middle class American society, the idea of the minimum amount of space one would want to live in is vastly larger than standards accepted as absolutely normal in other times, places, and cultures. Consider that a 64 square foot igloo is commonly said to comfortably house five Full Article…
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Non-Traditional Natural Relatives in Regulated Housing
By: Adam Leitman Bailey & Dov Treiman July 30th, 2014 When the Court of Appeals decided Braschi v. Stahl1 in 1989, many regarded it as purposed to give gay couples the same kind of protections that straight couples had in rent regulation, allowing one like a spouse to succeed to a tenancy as if he Full Article…
High Rent Vacancy: Not Actually Automatic Deregulation
By: Adam Leitman Bailey July 18th, 2014 Throughout the residential housing industry, there is dangerous ignorance of the amendments promulgated this year, amending the Rent Stabilization Code. All owners should be reading as much as possible about these amendments. Business is simply not the same as it was. One of the massive changes is in Full Article…
What You Must Know When Negotiating a Rooftop Antenna Contract,” The Cooperator
By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman September 1st, 2009 As the trilogy of real estate values rising, building usage changing, and cellphone and Internet communications became universal, wireless telecommunications companies became popular defendants in the Commercial Part of New York’s Civil Court. Owners began examining their rooftop antenna agreements to determine means to terminate Full Article…
Q & A: Following the Rules for Subletting,The New York Times
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…
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…
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…
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