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    Homeless project survives challenge

    Environmental Review  •  Ozone Park, Queens

    A not-for-profit proposed to convert two buildings in Ozone Park into homeless services facilities. In July 2016, Common Ground Management Corporation, a not-for-profit organization, applied to the City of New York for approval of a homeless shelter and services project. The non-for-profit organization intended to convert two multistory adjacent buildings in Ozone Park into temporary housing for homeless adults that would provide medical and psychiatric services, meals, laundry, and showers for stays of up to nine months. (read more…)

    Date:02/09/2022
    Category : CityLaw
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    Building owner not liable for cellar fall

    Sidewalk Cellars  •  Midtown, Manhattan

    Via Italia. Image Credit: Google Maps.

    Pedestrian fell through cellar doors on sidewalk on West 46th Street.  On November 29, 2017, John Harrington was walking on the sidewalk in front of a building located at 45 West 46th Street in Manhattan when he fell through the cellar doors and suffered injuries. (read more…)

    Tags : CityLaw, sidewalk cellars, Torts
    Date:01/27/2022
    Category : CityLaw
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    Property owner wins indemnification

    Accessibility  •  Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

    546 West 44th Street. Image Credit: Google Maps.

    Property owner sued general contractor and design consultant for indemnification of costs resulting from violations of federal, state, and local disabilities law. CREF 546 owned property located at 546 West 44th Street in Manhattan and hired developers to construct two fourteen-story residential midrise apartment buildings that shared amenities. CREF 546 contracted with Code Consultants to review design and construction documents and Hudson Meridian as their general contractor. The building became occupied in 2016. (read more…)

    Date:01/17/2022
    Category : CityLaw
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    Landlord not liable for evictions

    Non-eviction plans  •  Upper East Side, Manhattan

    Carnegie Park Tower. Image Credit: Google Maps

    Developer evicted elderly and disabled tenants lacking leases from building converted to condominiums. In April 2014, Carnegie Park Tower, LLC submitted a non-eviction offering plan to the Office of the New York Attorney General to convert rental units into condominiums in the building it owned at 200 East 94th Street in Manhattan. The plan provided that no non-purchasing tenant would be evicted because of the building’s conversion to condominiums. The plan became effective in August 2015, after 51 percent of the tenants opted to purchase their respective units. (read more…)

    Date:01/10/2022
    Category : CityLaw
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    Claim for Brownfield benefits advances

    Brownfields  •  Greenpoint, Brooklyn

    94 N 13th Street, as it was in August 2007. Image Credit: Google Maps.

    Property owner sought tax benefits for remediating contaminated sites already under voluntary State remediation consent order. In 2007, National Grid signed a consent order with the New York City Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to remediate hazardous wastes from National Grid’s closed manufactured gas plant sites. National Grid removed some of the hazardous waste from two adjacent sites located at 94 N. 13th Street and 121 N. 12th Street, Brooklyn. (read more…)

    Tags : CityLaw
    Date:01/04/2022
    Category : CityLaw
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