CityLaw Breakfasts Kick Off the New Academic Year

To a packed house on Friday, August 28, 2015, at 8:30 a.m., Dean Anthony Crowell called to order the 127th CityLaw Breakfast. The morning’s speaker was Carl Weisbrod, Chairman of the City Planning Commission, and the topic was affordable housing. Friday mornings in late August are not ideal for a business breakfast. Nevertheless, more than 200 people attended. They enjoyed the coffee, fruit and muffins, but they came because CityLaw Breakfasts play … <Read More>


COMPLETE VIDEO: The 128th CityLaw Breakfast Panel on September 11th, 2001

On Friday September 11, 2015, the Center for New York City Law at New York Law School hosted the 128th City Law Breakfast. The speakers were a roundtable of Jeffrey Friedlander, Steven Fishner, Marjorie Landa, Bryan Grimaldi, and Florence Hutner discussing their roles as attorneys for the City on September 11th, 2001 and in the days after.



NYLS Honors Four Leaders with Civic Fame Award

Civic Fame is the colossal, 25-foot tall gilded female figure in a flowing robe who stands barefoot on a sphere at the top of the Municipal Building overlooking City Hall. Civic Fame, created in 1913 by sculptor Adolph Weinman, carries a five-sectioned crown representing the five boroughs, and a shield and laurel branch representing victory and triumph.

On May 1, 2015, the statue also became the name of a new award by New York Law … <Read More>