
Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks at the 118th CityLaw Breakfast. Image credit: CityLand
On Monday, November 30, 2015, former Speaker of the New York State Assembly Sheldon Silver was convicted on seven charges of corruption in Federal court. Two days after announcing the charges this past January, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara spoke at the Center for New York City Law’s CityLaw Breakfast. The video of the speech is available in full after the jump.
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The Center for New York City Law cordially invites you to a City Law Breakfast
presenting
The City’s Lawyers and September 11th: A Breakfast Roundtable Discussion
featuring (office held in 2001):
Jeffrey D. Friedlander (Law Department)
Steven Fishner (Criminal Justice Coordinator)
Marjorie Landa (Law Department)
Bryan Grimaldi (Mayor’s Office)
Florence Hutner (Law Department)
moderated by Anthony W. Crowell, Dean and President, New York Law School
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On Friday, August 28, 2015 the Center for New York City Law at New York Law School resumes its monthly CityLaw Breakfast series with our first speaker, Carl Weisbrod, Chairman of the New York City Planning Commission. Chairman Weisbrod began our series last year as well, where he addressed the de Blasio Administration’s beginning efforts to increase affordable housing in New York City and announced East New York as the first neighborhood scheduled for rezoning. The speech in its entirety is available after the jump. You can RSVP for the breakfast on August 28, 2015 here.
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On July 6, 2015 the Appellate Division, First Department voted unanimously to enjoin construction of a shopping mall and movie theater on the site of the former Shea Stadium in Willets Point, Queens. The suit was brought in part by advocates of New York City’s parks, the latest in a long history of actions by New Yorkers to represent their valued open spaces. On October 21, 2005 Adrian Benepe, then Commissioner of the Department of Parks and Recreation, spoke at the CityLaw Breakfast on the parks of Lower Manhattan and the efforts underway to renovate them. The speech in its entirety is available after the jump.
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