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    Law Bans Employers From Asking Candidates About Salary History

    CityLaw, Commission on Human Rights  •  Agency News  •  Citywide

    Image Credit: NYC Human Rights Commission.

    New local law bans employers from asking applicants about past salaries. On October 31, 2017, the new city-wide Salary History Law took effect. Public Advocate Letitia James, introduced the legislation in August 2017 in response to a report that women in the City earned $5.8 billion less than men in annual wages. Women in City government suffered a wage gap two-to-three times larger than women working in the private sector, with women of color hurt more than women from other backgrounds. (more…)

    Tags : New York City Commission on Human Rights, salary
    Date: 02/28/2018
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    Staten Island Building Owner Fined $71,900 for Illegal Conversion

    Court Decisions  •  Illegal Conversions  •  Mariner’s Harbor, Staten Island

    Owner converted a two-family house to a four-family. On May 27, 2009, the Department of Buildings issued four notices of violation to Nashat Estafanous. Estafanous owned a residential property at 25 Simonson Avenue in Staten Island, which he converted, without permits, from a two-family residence to a four-family residence by fitting the attic and newly-constructed garage for occupancy. The NOVs imposed a fine totaling $31,100, and ordered Estafanous to remove the illegal conversion construction or to obtain permits for the construction. (more…)

    Tags : Environmental Control Board, Illegal Conversions
    Date: 04/20/2016
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    Scooters, Hoverboards, and Bicycles; What’s Legal?

    CityLaw  •  Cover Article by: Jessica Soultanian-Braunstein
    scooters, hoverboards, bicycles

    Image credit: Jeff Hopkins

    New Yorkers enjoy many new forms of transportation such as electric scooters, electric bicycles, hoverboards, skateboards, in-line skates, electric wheelchairs, and more. The laws governing these forms of transportation are confusing and mostly unenforced, if they are even enforceable. State laws and regulations on vehicle and roadway usage typically trump conflicting local laws, except in New York City, where the New York City Council has been given much authority to promulgate laws and regulations on the use of the City’s public roadways. (more…)

    Tags : Bicycle, Hoverboards, New York Vehicle and Traffic Law, Pedicabs, Scooters
    Date: 02/25/2016
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    New York’s Constitutional Convention Vote: Hit or Stand?

    CityLaw  •  Cover Article by Michael Twomey
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    Image credit: Jeff Hopkins

    In 2017, along with voting for mayor, council members, and other elected officials, the voters of New York will be asked to answer “Yes “or “No” to this question:  “Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend the same?” Every twenty years, the New York State constitution requires that the voters of the State be given the option to call a constitutional convention for revising and amending the New York State constitution – a generational opportunity to consider the State’s governing document and how well we are governed.

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    Tags : Common Cause New York, Constitutional Convention, Gerald Benjamin, Governor Mario Cuomo, League of Women Voters, Michael A. Cardozo, New York City Bar Association, New York Public Interest Research Group
    Date: 12/14/2015
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    Court orders Buildings not to issue violation

    Court Decisions  •  Department of Buildings  •  Annadale, Staten Island

    Developer failed to issue Staten Island homeowners final C of O three years after construction was completed. In March 2001, Jamie Minchew and Rocco Rinella hired ATP Development Corp. to build a house at 44 Cottontail Court in Staten Island. Eight months later they closed on the house without a final certificate of occupancy, but ATP agreed it would furnish a final certificate of occupancy within one year. Several temporary certificates were issued up until January 2004, after which no more certificates were issued.

    In November 2004, Buildings notified Minchew and Rinella that they were occupying the house without a valid certificate in violation of the law. In response, Minchew and Rinella sued Buildings and ATP, seeking to stop Buildings from issuing any violations related to their failure to have a valid certificate, and to compel ATP to obtain a final certificate. Buildings sought to dismiss the petition, claiming that the civil court lacked the authority to forbid the Department from issuing violations or permits. (more…)

    Tags : ATP Development Corp, Jamie Minchew, Minchew v. City of New York, Rocco Rinella
    Date: 04/15/2005
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