The Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) was closed on Jan. 20, 2023, by the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA). For months, many summary proceedings have been on hold for tenants with pending ERAP applications, even when funding for the...
COVID-19 Concerns
Economic pressure on NYC property owners who lease office space
No one could have predicted the extreme, once-in-a-lifetime events that began with the March 2020 emergence of COVID-19. Now, after almost three dramatic years, inflation and the Federal Reserve System’s (the Fed’s) corresponding interest rate hikes add even more...
New legislation makes certain hotel-apartment conversions more attractive
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation on June 7, taking effect immediately, that will ease red tape for hotel owners and developers considering the conversion of underutilized, sometimes vacant hotels into affordable residential units. The bill allots $200...
Constitutional challenge to NYC covid law revived by federal appeals court
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on October 28, 2021 that the Federal Judge presiding over the case Melendez v. City of New York erred in dismissing the Federal Court Action brought by various landlords challenging NYC COVID Laws that adversely impacted...
Licensee not eligible for stay of eviction for COVID-19 hardship
Attorney Adam P. Cooper of Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel, P.C., attained a judgment in favor of our client holding that occupants of residential premises our client owns were ineligible for a stay of a holdover proceeding based on alleged hardship...
COVID-19 restrictions have been a roller coaster ride for NY restaurateurs
On March 19, indoor dining at New York City restaurants expanded to 50% capacity and at outstate restaurants to 75% capacity, according to the state government website New York Forward. Other restrictions on a variety of New York businesses are slowly loosening. Yet,...