By Mark Chiusano The post-Independence Day missive from Mayor Eric Adams had notes of grandeur: the city was announcing a new ...

On July 31, 2025, the New York City Department of environmental protection joined the Department of Parks and Recreation and the Department of Design and Construction to announce the completion of a ...

Photo Credit: NYC.Gov Registered voters in the Democratic and Republican parties will, on June 22, 2021, be asked to participate in one of the most important primary elections in New York City’s ...

Ranked-choice voting was implemented in each jurisdiction to improve the representativeness of the voting system and reduce negative campaigning New Yorkers, in past years, passed a variety of reforms ...

The New York City Housing Authority’s efforts to settle with the U. S. Attorney over NYCHA’s mismanagement of public housing came to an abrupt end on November 14, 2018 when U.S. District Court Judge ...

Third Avenue Residential Apartments at 160 East 84th Street. Image credit: CityLaw. State used sampling method to set new base rent for studio improperly deregulated under luxury decontrol. The owner ...

Image Credit: NYC DOB. Buildings will be graded on a scale of A to F. On September 8, 2020, the Department of Buildings announced that starting on October 30, 2020, all NYC Buildings 25,000 square ...

Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver Image Credit: John McCarten Other agencies still missing from Council’s hearing on Park’s capital process. On November 12, 2019, the City Council’s Committee on ...

Image Credit: CityLand. Today, November 12, 2021, New York City Corporation Counsel Georgia Pestana spoke at the 175th CityLaw Breakfast. Ms. Pestana spoke on “Practicing Law During the Pandemic: ...

The NY State Capitol. Image Credit: Mike Groll, Governor’s Office. By Jim Caras A New York City mayor described by the periodicals of the day as a “dapper” dresser with “swagger.” A mayor who spent ...

Loft Law prevents using bankruptcy as a tool to circumvent housing law. In 2002, Bridge Associates of Soho, Inc. (“Bridge Associates”) acquired 99 Vandam Street in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan.

That was the subject of Liu’s talk at New York Law School’s 196th CityLaw Breakfast on Wednesday, during which she described well-used public space as “the secret sauce of cities” and how she thinks ...