By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman January 29, 2019 The New Rules of Seeking a Buyout of a Rent-Regulated Tenant In their Rent Regulation column, Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman discuss how recent changes to the New York City Administrative Code along with a recent decision in the Appellate Term, First Department, have Full Article…
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TIC for tat: Court moves the goal posts in cotenancy rules
March 1, 2018 By: Massimo F. D’Angelo When joint owners of real property are unable to get along with each other, they are armed with a very powerful legal remedy, that of the partition. Any joint tenant or tenant-in-common who no longer desires to hold property in common with their fellow co-tenants, may maintain, as Full Article…
The Rent Law 2015
By Adam Leitman Bailey On June 26, 2015, Governor Cuomo signed into law Chapter 20 of the Laws of 2015, a complex piece of legislation covering a variety of topics, most of them having nothing to do with landlord-tenant relations. However, that section of the Chapter 20 that does cover landlord-tenant relations carries, by law, Full Article…
The Sound and the Fury: Noise in Rentals, Co-ops and Condos
By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman As New York City experiences ever denser housing, the problems of noise resound ever more clearly. The noise has gotten louder for many reasons. First more families have chosen to reside in this city and one of the loudest and unrepresented group of violators has been screaming children. Full Article…
Why We Do Not Hire Law School Graduates from the Ivy League Schools
In order to strive to become one of New York’s best real estate law firms we do not hire law school graduates from Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia or any of the other traditional highest tier schools. Our hires come from the top of the classes of the second, third or fourth tier law schools. We Full Article…
FDA’s Poison Prevention Packaging Rule: A Bitter Pill the FDA is Forced to Swallow
By John M. Desiderio The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently ruled unanimously that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not authorized to regulate the packaging of solid dosage dietary supplements and drugs for poison prevention purposes.1 The court held that FDA exceeded its statutory jurisdiction when it issued regulations requiring unit-dose Full Article…
Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Successfully Obtains Judgment in Three Common Charges Foreclosure Actions
Our clients, the Boards of Managers of condominiums, often find themselves in the precarious situation of having a unit owner that is failing to pay common charges despite numerous notifications of the default and are therefore forced to file liens on the units and bring a foreclosure action against the unit. And, because of the 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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