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Daniel Richmond and Counsel Lee Lefkowitz made a motion to dismiss, arguing that the neighbor’s action was mooted and superseded...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...

Z&S Partner Kory Salomone successfully petitioned the Croton-on-Hudson Board to put zoning regulations in place for the North End Gateway District in March 2022.  The North End Gateway District regulations permit the eight properties in the Gateway District to be development with mixed use or multi-family buildings.  Specifically, the property located 1380 Albany Post Road...

David Steinmetz and Lee Lefkowitz are representing husband-and-wife homebuyers who were granted a building permit to construct a single-family home on a vacant parcel in the Village of Harrison. The parcel, like all parcels in the development, were subdivided into less-than-an-acre lots before the district’s current one-acre zoning was enacted. But a group of neighbors...

Z&S Partner Kory Salomone secured a zone text amendment and re-zoning in connection with a 32-acre parcel in the Town of North Castle . The text amendment and re-zoning paves the way for property that is located adjacent to IBM’s worldwide headquarters, and within a ¼ mile of Main Street in Armonk, to be developed...