Landlord wins legal fight with tenants over J-51 rent overcharges
Rosenberg & Estis, P.C. has secured an important victory in the Court of Appeals, which unanimously held that the Appellate Division, First Department, incorrectly ruled...
Category : Lawsuits
Women win $1.5M sex harass claim against construction company
New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced that 18 former employees, who experienced sexual harassment and workplace retaliation at a Long Island-based construction company, were...
Stuyvesant Town tenants file lawsuit against Blackstone
By Maria Rocha-Buschel The Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association filed a lawsuit against property owner Blackstone last week in response to an attempt to...
DOB stands by supertall decision
Developers SJP and Mitsui Fudosan are cheering a decision by the city to appeal a court decision to chop the top 20 stories off of...
Landlord ordered to pay graffiti artists nearly $7M for destroying work
By Sabina Mollot A landlord who whitewashed graffiti art off his Long Island City property has lost his appeal to pay the artists $6.7.5 million...
421a Builder pays back wages to workers
Attorney General Letitia James, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, and 32BJ SEIU President Kyle Bragg yesterday distributed more than $400,000 in back pay to...
Judge dismisses owners from rent regs lawsuit
The principals of one of the cityʼs biggest rent regulated landlords have been dismissed from a lawsuit accusing them of overcharging their tenants. State Supreme...