Z&S and a design team consisting of Beta Engineering and Fisher Associates, secured approvals from the Town of Stony Point Zoning Board of Appeals in connection with a proposal to expand the existing Lovett Electrical Substation located in Tomkins Cove . The expansion consists of a new gas insulated substation on the property located at...

Z&S and a design team consisting of JMC, Inc. and GF55 Architects, secured approvals from the Village of Port Chester Planning Commission in connection with a proposal to redevelop a former church property on Willet Avenue with a 6-story, 71-unit residential building. The new transit-oriented development will incorporate the bell tower and façade of the...

In the latest milestone of the Pelham House public/private partnership with the Village of Pelham, the Village Board adopted a Negative Declaration and approved the developer’s request to rezone 3 parcels along Fifth Avenue to the Business District Floating Zone (BDFZ). The rezoned parcels currently contain a dilapidated parking structure and aging fire house, both...

Michael Zarin and Kate Roberts recently secured SEQRA Approval and a Zoning Text Amendment from the Town of Harrison in connection with the Webb Avenue Multi-Family Residential Project. After a nearly three-year SEQRA and Zoning process, including the preparation of a full Environmental Impact Statement, Z&S, working in close collaboration with JMC and the Development...

David Cooper and Brian Sinsabaugh recently secured Amended Site Plan approval from the Town of Fishkill Planning Board in connection with the final phase of Toll Brother’s Van Wyck Mews community in the Town of Fishkill. Toll is proposing to build 103 townhouses in lieu of six previously approved buildings containing condominium flats. The amended...

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...