NEVES REALTY CORP. v. SLOAN-BAR ASSOCIATES

Dec 10, 2010

OUTCOME: Client was successful in having the complaint of the adjoining landowner dismissed in its entirety as a matter of law without the necessity of any additional litigation.

DIGITAL HI-FI CORP. v. MT. VERNON ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS

Apr 09, 2009

OUTCOME: Client succeeded in overturning decision of Zoning Board of Appeals detrimental to use and value of client's property

POLSEN v. ROSENBERG

Jun 03, 2002

OUTCOME: Clients succeeded in their opposition to neighbor's application for a subdivision.

A homeowner applied for variances to subdivide a substandard lot from his house. Clients were neighbors who successfully objected to the granting of the valances before the Zoning Board of Appeals. The ... N.Y. Supreme Court then directed issuance of variances. The Appellate Court reversed the lower court, and reinstated the denial.of the variances, holding that the denial by the Zoning Board was correct in that the homeowner failed to show that 'that the detriment to the community would outweigh the benefit' to the homeowner if variances were granted, as argued by the neighbors,

YONKERS CITY POST NO. 1666 VFW v, JOSANTH REALTY CORPORATION

May 29, 1986

OUTCOME: Client was awarded a judgment for full amount claimed with interest.

I represented the plaintiff-land owner in a suit against title insurance company which failed to report a recorded easement which crossed the client's property. The NY Court of Appeals unanimously over ... turned two lower courts which failed to accept values offered at trial by plaintiff's expert real estate appraiser. The decision has frequently been cited by courts and in texts for application of correct principles of valuation in claims against title insurance companies.