On August 3, 2022, Partners David Steinmetz and David Cooper secured final subdivision plat approval from the Town of Greenburgh Planning Board on behalf of Brightview Senior Living. Brightview, a national provider of senior living communities based in Baltimore with several communities operating or planned in Westchester, is the contract-vendee to purchase an 8-acre portion...

David Steinmetz and Kate Feinman successfully closed a complex $72 Million Dollar refinance transaction on behalf of Azorim (Israel’s largest, publicly traded development company), in connection with a 180-unit residential tower at the Monarch at Ridge Hill community in Yonkers, NY.  Z&S is already working on securing land use approvals for another residential tower in...

Daniel Richmond and Lee Lefkowitz defended property owners in a Rockland County Supreme Court lawsuit brought by a neighboring landowner alleging nuisance and trespass. The case involved a lengthy discovery process including document productions, interrogatories, and depositions. During depositions, Z&S deposed the Plaintiff and secured an admission that the Plaintiff lacked adequate knowledge to support...

Z&S Partner Dan Richmond secured a Decision denying preliminary injunctive relief aimed at stopping a client’s construction of a mikvah project pending appeal.  The Honorable Robert M. Berliner of the Rockland County Supreme Court held that once a lower Court dismisses an Article 78 proceeding, it no longer has jurisdiction to issue injunctive relief.  While...

Since 2017, the New York City Law Department has relied on Z&S to provide expert testimony in a series of condemnation proceedings arising out of the City’s acquisition of land for its “Bluebelt” flood control program on Staten Island. In a recent case before Hon. Wayne P. Saitta in the New York Supreme Court for...

Zarin & Steinmetz represents the owner of the former Key Foods Grocery Store site on Midland Avenue in the Village of Port Chester seeking to bring the first Floor and Décor store to Westchester. The Property was recently accepted into the NYS Brownfield Cleanup Program. The Project would cleanup and revitalize a dormant “gateway” property...

In the latest round of litigation between the Hampshire County Club and the Village of Mamaroneck over the future development of a 106-acre golf course, Z&S Partner David Cooper secured a decision from the New York Supreme Court rejecting the Village’s attempt to dismiss Hampshire’s regulatory taking lawsuit. Hampshire filed the lawsuit after the Village...

The owner of a large property in Orange County retained Z&S to defend a lawsuit brought by neighbors claiming a breach of a restrictive covenant in their deeds. On behalf of the property owner, Partner Daniel Richmond and Counsel Lee Lefkowitz made a motion to dismiss, arguing that the neighbor’s action was mooted and superseded...

Partner Jody Cross guided Eating Disorder Treatment Center of New York, LLC (“EDTNY”) through the Padavan Law siting process to establish a Community Residence for an Eating Disorder Integrated Treatment (“CREDIT”) program in the in the Town of Clarkstown. The Credit Program would serve up to 14 adults with eating disorders (i.e., anorexia nervosa, bulimia...

Z&S Partner Jody Cross represented a private developer in obtaining approvals for two additional hotel pads on an existing hotel site in the Town of New Windsor in Orange County. She guided her client through the full SEQRA EIS process, and obtained necessary variances and site plan approval. She also successfully defeated an Article 78...